Bleep

Fennesz followed up his highly regarded 2001 release Endless Summer with Venice in 2004 for the Touch label. Those who marveled in the delicate textures and emotion-heightening sounds of Endless Summer would surely not be disappointed - Venice is easily the equal of that more renowned album. Opening track 'Rivers Of Sand' quivers beautifully into focus, languid low-end and fine-spun feedback submerging the listener into the Austrian musician's unique and beautiful sound world. 'Circassian' - written in collaboration with guitarist Burkhard Stangl - is filled with cascading power chords, a hallucinatory, My Bloody Valentine-esque, swirling jam. 'The Point Of It All' is, in contrast, darker in tone, filled with fizzing, isolated noise, while Laguna is a lulling and delicate piece of sprawling guitar work.