Bécs

"If each Fennesz album seems better than the last, it's because the world is catching up, and if it's hard to find much to get surprised about on Bécs, that isn't something that's got a lot to do with Christian Fennesz. As the shock of the new wears off, other qualities rise, like the profound psychological loneliness living in Warhol's Screen Tests beneath the delicious emptiness of the concept. What Duchamp did for the urinal was to give it a whole new shade of purpose; what Fennesz does with his tools is to reimbue the played-out guitar and the dull hollow computer with shafts of light, of possibility".

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"Fennesz once illuminated the beauty of a digitally scrambled memory, but Bécs is a memory of a digitally scrambled memory. So while there's something appealingly meta about returning to a sound that was so suggestive of experimental electronic music 13 years ago, there's also just the slightest hint of surrender in the proposition. If electronic music in this vein is generally expected to push things forward, resurrecting a style from over a decade ago makes you wonder about motivation. But that's an analytical judgement rather than an aesthetic one, because the music on Bécs is often gorgeous".

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