Tim Hecker’s Mirages is the follow-up and succession to the critically acclaimed Radio Amor (2003) and his somewhat more sentimental Haunt Me (2001). Mirages further erodes the vapid predispositions of electronic music, uncovering a terrain where dissonance and melody coincide in a near-bohemian unison. Hecker has indeed developed a unique approach to music in an increasingly overcrowded and generic field. This is a challenging work, which reconciles a highly experimental approach to song craft that is at once beautiful and unnerving.