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Shards

2025 EP by Tim Hecker
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Shards

Summary

Shards is an extended play[1]. Shards ranks in the top 7% of extended_play entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (48 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Shards's instance of is recorded as extended play[3].
  • Shards's genre is ambient music[4].
  • Shards's genre is experimental music[5].
  • Shards followed No Highs[6].
  • Among the performers on Shards was Tim Hecker[7].
  • Shards's record label is recorded as Kranky Records[8].
  • Shards was released on February 21, 2025[9].
  • Shards's title is recorded as Shards[10].
  • Shards's duration is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q11574', 'amount': '+1867'}[11].
  • Shards's number of parts of this work is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7302866', 'amount': '+7'}[12].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: EP[13]

  • First release date: 2025-02-21[14]

  • Genre(s): ambient, drone[15]

  • Community tags: ambient, drone[16]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 0e6d8113-19d3-4664-9bc1-ef18b31b78fa[17]

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Authorship and Creation

Among the performers on Shards was Tim Hecker[7].

Publication

Shards was released on February 21, 2025[9]. Genres include ambient music[4] and experimental music[5].

Adaptations and Inspiration

Shards followed No Highs[6].

Why It Matters

Shards ranks in the top 7% of extended_play entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (48 views/month).[2]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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