Bcs

Description

The last time Fennesz released an album on the 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. Becs (pronounced baeetch) is Hungarian for Vienna and is the first full length Fennesz solo release since 2008s Black Sea.

Eschewing the more drone orientated works of Black Sea, Becs 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 Becs is an astonishing contribution to contemporary pop. Sav co-written by Cedric 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. Becs is not just an album or a series of songs, its a world to inhabit, a landscape ripe with sounds, songs and that esteemed Fennesz signature.