| Mirages | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Tim Hecker |
| Cover: | Tim_Hecker-Mirages_cover.jpg |
| Released: | September 21, 2004 |
| Recorded: | November 2002 and March 2004 in Montréal and Ottawa |
| Length: | 47:41 |
| Label: | Alien8 |
| Prev Title: | Radio Amor |
| Prev Year: | 2003 |
| Next Title: | Mort Aux Vaches |
| Next Year: | 2005 |
Mirages is the third studio album by Canadian electronic music musician Tim Hecker, released on September 21, 2004 on Alien8 Recordings. It is described on the Alien8 website as "an ambient-death-metal classic in waiting." The album is composed primarily of heavily distorted and processed guitar.
The track "The Truth of Accountants" is a reference to the philosophy of director Werner Herzog. In 1999, Herzog made a declaration at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, writing, "By dint of declaration the so-called French: [[Cinéma vérité|Cinema Verité]] is devoid of French: verité. It reaches a merely superficial truth, the truth of accountants.".[1] [2] Herzog continues to use this phrase to distance himself from the idea that facts create truth.[3]