Most Helpful Customer Reviews
|
|
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An essential release, 10 Sep 2001
My interest in avante garde electronic music rivals my interest in catching bad diseases. But this is some of the most evocative, emotional music I have ever heard.Fragmented guitars play half-heard, heartbroken songs over perfect loops, evoking the emotion of Beach Boys music of the late 70s, and the intoxicating wall of noise of My Bloody Valentine. It's like hearing the most beautiful music ever made, a thousand years after it was recorded, bouncing back from space. If you've heard Fennesz Plays (unrecognisable covers of 60s hits), it's more of the same. It's hard to know whether music like this is the Emperor's New Clothes but if it is, I invite you to join me naked in the street!
|
|
|
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
staring at the sun, 28 Oct 2004
By A Customer
This is avant-garde music at its most accessible and atmospheric. Besides the false start that is 'Made in Hong Kong' - with its inauspicious opening drones that sound like your stereo is melting - Endless Summer delivers its promise of bright, shimmering (albeit highly abstracted) digital music. It is never straitforward, Fennesz puts his own guitar strums through the ringer of filtered manipulation, but always keeps a tangible landscape within our view. The title track, despite its 7-plus minutes, is the definitive track, a swirl of MBV-style soundcapes that never bursts into the frenzy you expect, but simmers and evolves (and is not unlike staring into the sun until all shapes and forms blur into one). 'A Year in a Minute' -which reminds of M83 - washes giant waves of synth over the listener while acid squiggles slowly build underneath and threaten to overwealm before being subdued. Elsewhere, the music moves subtly from deconstructed, sonic doodling, into soothing coherence, while 'Happy Audio', the final 9-minute plus epic, crackles with effervescent vinyl static.
|
|
|
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
His most accomplished work to date., 11 Jul 2001
By A Customer
Much has passed under the bridge since the 1997 release Hotel Paral.lel, his first full length for Mego. Constantly active in the fields of performance, dance theatre and film music, as well numerous collaborative releases on labels such as Ritornell, Touch, Charhizma and Synaesthesia, not forgetting of course his work with Jim O'Rourke and Peter Rehberg as Fenn O'Berg. Fennesz's third full length album (after the 1999 Touch release 'plus forty seven degrees 56'37" minus sixteen degrees 51'08"') explores further the territory mapped out on the 'Plays' single release (currently available on Moikai as a CD single). Eight songs of sublime texture, solid melodies intertwined over vast valleys of digital sound. 'Endless Summer's geographic location is where analogue and digital worlds meet, however this is no battle or pointless pro/contra argument, but the perfect balance. A balance that many strive for but rarely reach.
|
|
|
Most Recent Customer Reviews
|
~ Fuck Buttons
~ Gas
~ Stars of the Lid
With an Amazon.co.uk Gift Certificate, you can get them what they want (even if you don't know what that is). 
Amazon Home