Editions Mego – Editions Mego 165
The last time Fennesz released an album on Austrian label Mego it was
2001 and the name of that release was 'Endless Summer'. Now, in 2014
Editions Mego is extremely proud to release the conceptual follow up
that landmark of abstract pop. Bécs (pronounced 'baeetch') is Hungarian
for Vienna and is the first full length Fennesz solo release since
2008's 'Black Sea'.
Eschewing the more drone orientated works of 'Black Sea', 'Bécs' returns
to the more florid pop mechanisms as deployed on Endless Summer.
'Static Kings' features the extra leverage of Werner Dafeldecker and
Martin Brandlmayer who deploy a range of atmospheric abstract effects to
shape a bewitching sound world. The 10 minute centrepiece 'Liminality'
(featuring Tony Buck on drums) is classic Fennesz: epic, evocative,
beautiful, impossible. 'Pallas Athene' creates a sanctuary of hovering
beauty which leads into the title track. Emotional and assured, the
track 'Bécs' is an astonishing contribution to contemporary pop. 'Sav'
co-written by Cédric Stevens (aka Acid Kirk) inhabits a less structural
terrain as one enters a forest of small sounds and oblique atmospheres,
where the closing 'Paroles', a gentle melody unravels amongst swirls of
electronics and fried disruption. Bécs is not just an album or a series
of songs, it's a world to inhabit, a landscape ripe with sounds, songs
and that esteemed Fennesz signature.
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