Not quite ambient and not quite overt noise with Bécs pointedly asking for your attention rather than quietly seeking it out.
Editions Mego serve up the first Fennesz release on the label since 2001’s Endless Summer, with a musical style inhabiting similar sonic territories of melodic guitar work swathed in processing.
Further key Fennesz traits abound—strummed acoustic guitar, dissolving melodies into seas of chaotic experimentalism, unfurling delicate noise and use of the word ‘Liminal’ (a fair descriptor for much Fennesz output).
Bécs feels more present and demanding than previous meditative work such as Black Sea and Seven Stars. As with all Fennesz, it’s not quite ambient and not quite overt noise with Bécs pointedly asking for your attention rather than quietly seeking it out.
Bécs is available now from Editions Mego.
