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- Summary: This is the fourth studio album for the electronic artist from Austria.
- Record Label: Touch
- Genre(s): Electronic
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Positive: 9 out of 12
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Mixed: 3 out of 12
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Negative: 0 out of 12
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Suffice to say that with all its slowly blooming beauty, alluring aberrations, and deftly measured brute force, the closest analogue to what Fennesz has done on Black Sea seems to be nature itself.
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Black Sea is positively huge while also being much more accessible. You get a sense here of how far Fennesz has come, how far his music reaches, and the unexplored possibilities that still exist.
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Over the course of the album's 52 minutes, the eight tracks reveal a brilliance in construction.
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Vaguely melodious, embedded with overtones, sometimes placid and sometimes stormy, Black Sea is like a wave in that its diverse parts meld together to form a powerful, all-encompassing entity.
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As it stands, Black Sea is a solid, if not entirely groundbreaking.
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The first is a human trait that seems necessary to enjoy ambient music at all, but which may have been compromised by Fennesz’s more pop proclivities: patience. Spend some quality time with Black Sea, and it begins to open up.
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Q MagazineThere's a mesmeric quality to the layering of divergent sonic textures. [Mar 2009, p.98]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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Dec 11, 2014
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