Endless Summer (Fennesz album)

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Endless summer
Studio album by Fennesz

Publication
(s)

July 3, 2001

Label (s) Mego

Format (s)

CD , LP

Genre (s)

Ambient
Glitch
Noise
IDM

Title (number)

8 (original version)
10 (re-release, 2006)

running time

44:38 (Original version)
50:43 (Re-release, 2006)

production

Christian Fennesz

chronology
Hotel Paral.lel
1997 		Endless summer Venice
2004

Endless Summer is the second studio album by Austrian musician Christian Fennesz . It was released on July 3, 2001 on Mego and is considered the artist's most financially successful album.

style

Like many of Fennesz's other works, this album is based on digitally manipulated electric guitar sounds, but with a stronger preference for melodies and pop-like compositions than on his more experimental, earlier releases. Endless Summer is named after a hit compilation by the Beach Boys ( Endless Summer , 1974). This album was considered a great inspiration for his work by Fennesz, as was the surf film of the same name, The Endless Summer from the 60s. Fennesz “covered” the Beach Boys in 1998 on his EP Plays .

reception

The album was received positively.

Resident Advisor ranked the album # 41 on a list of Albums of the Decade. It received five out of five points. In Tiny Mixtapes it landed on number 14 in the list of best albums of the decade. and at number 26 on Pitchfork Media's list . At Pitchfork in July 2001 the album was rated 9.4 out of 10 points.

Tobias Lindemann writes in Testcard # 11: Humor :

“Fennesz has never made a secret of his past as a guitarist, for him the guitar is and will remain an important sound source. Compared to the reintroduction of the guitar in electronically produced pop music via sampling, [...] he does not rely on pure organic sound. Instead, he generates even the most abstract sounds from a few chords and pickings . Endless Summer never hides the fact that it is the child of a computer hard drive . [...] The trick that Fennesz succeeds so easily here is the connection between purposefully emotional melodies and abstraction. "

- Tobias Lindemann, 2001

In 2020, the song Caecilia was voted 12th of the “100 most important Austrian pop songs” by the pop culture magazine The Gap as part of the AustroTOP ranking.

Track list

All tracks were composed, recorded and produced by Christian Fennesz.

  1. Made in Hong Kong - 4:22
  2. Endless Summer - 8:35
  3. A Year in a Minute - 6:01
  4. Caecilia - 3:53
  5. Got to Move On - 3:48
  6. Shisheido - 2:58
  7. Before I Leave - 4:06
  8. Happy Audio - 10:55

Bonus tracks from the 2006 re-release

The album was re-released in 2006. The edition has a different cover and contains the two bonus tracks:

9. Badminton Girl - 4:06
10. Endless - 2:01

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1144%7Ctitle=Top 100 albums of the '00s
  2. ↑ http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=4440
  3. ↑ http://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/favorite-100-albums-2000-2009-20-01
  4. ^ Pitchfork - The Decade in Music. Top 200 albums of the '00s: # 50 - # 21.
  5. ↑ http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/3035-endless-summer/
  6. ↑ Tobias Lindemann, Fennesz: Endless Summer , in: Testcard # 11: Humor , Ventil Verlag , Mainz 2002, page 211f.
  7. ↑ AustroTOP - The 100 most important Austrian pop songs - page 20 from April 28th, 14th 2020, accessed on April 23rd, 2020 (German).

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