Endless Summer

I listen to a good amount of IDM and ambient music and only one album will jump out at me every couple years. This is that album for me. So rich and warm and visual. Most electronic music is so cold for me. Listen to "Before I Leave" and then buy this entire album.

To the first two reviewers who were ripping on this album - obviousley this is not what you were looking for, next time listen to some of the music samples before you drop $10 (or maybe go to the record store and give it a listen first....remember record stores?) instead of steering prospective listeners away from a great album such as this. I first became familiar with Fennesz via "Venice", another beauty. Where "Venice" has it's seasonal mood turned more toward autumn/fall/winter (though of course it is a good listen any time), "Endless Summer" is self explainatory. This is the sound of long days on the beach, by the river, in the woods, in the city with it's blazing concrete, the muted euphoria of bathing in the sun as well as the relief when dusk falls on your slightly over-baked hide. When a few cold drinks with friends on someones lawn or puffing up alone on your front porch seem a necessity, and the humid, ecclectic tangled greenness of the season makes twilight almost other worldly - all the more enchanting since it is not another world, but our own, one that seems as if it could be eminating this fu**ing beautiful music from it's every corner.

surfing. sun. drone. sweetest melodies dunked in saltwater. If you're a sucker for pop buried in feedback and noise (like me), please listen. One of my alltime favs.

ignore the reviews by martini houdini and kevykev. these reviews are not useful because these guys just plain don't like this kind of music. I don't understand people reviewing music (or even listening to it, for that matter) in a genre that they don't like. It'd be like me giving a review of any heavy metal music...I don't happen to like that kind of music, so why would anyone who likes it want to hear what i have to say about it? I like much of Fennesz's stuff, and the same goes for this disc.

Ignore the other reviews - this is Fennsz at his best

(Note: this is a newly remixed edition of the 1996 album of the same name, with the addition of two bonus tracks). I remember reading many reviews of this album stating it was a groundbreaking electronic classic. I then purchased the disc and was quite disappointed. All I heard was distorted noise with heavily processed guitar strumming. I didn't get it. A few listens later, the album completely transformed itself, proving the reviews correct. What once was noise became beautifully ordered music. Sadly the 30 second samples aren’t enough to make sense of it. The track that caught me off guard the most was "Before I Leave". On first listen it sounded like a CD skipping and now it’s my favorite track, simply mesmorizing. "Caecilia" is another I'd recommend. Endless Summer is a fitting title as I can no longer recall summer memories without hearing these songs in my head, and playing it during winter might very possibly help fend off the cold.

enough of this s@*&! already