FenneszBest Fennesz Albums Ranked

Endless Summer

pitchfork

9.4

“Newly mixed reissue of the modern classic-- an experimental electronic record that uses digital bits to refract and bend ideas about warmth in pop music-- features two bonus cuts, including a previously unreleased track.”

Venice

pitchfork

8.6

“In an interview with *The Wire* last year, Kid606 let slip that, like many electronic producers in his sphere, he could create an album in one night. He asserts that the software has gotten so good that making tracks is just that easy: Talent is kinda nice-- and probably adds something to the equation-- but it's not really required. There's no question that the perceptible dip in interest in exper”

Agora

pitchfork

8.5

“The experimental musician’s sweeping, ambient album works in small, fascinating ways from moment to moment but has a cumulative force that is unlike anything he’s done in years.”

Black Sea

pitchfork

8.4

“Black Sea, which again finds experimental electronic music star Christian Fennesz working primarily with guitar and computer, is his first solo album since 2004's Venice, and it's reminiscent of classical pieces-- sweeping and symphonic and patiently unfolding*.*”

Field Recordings 1995 - 2002

pitchfork

8.3

“In the wake of the critical and (by Mego standards) commercial success of last year's *Endless Summer*, Touch presents *Field Recordings 1995-2002*, an assortment of compilation contributions, soundtrack work, unreleased tracks, and remixes from laptop wunderkind Fennesz-- plus the entirety of the notable 1996 debut EP *Instrument*. It's interesting to hear Fennesz again stripped of the conceptual”

Agora

thelineofbestfit

8.0

“Fennesz flourishes over adversity on new LP Agora”