- Record Label: Editions Mego
- Release Date: Jun 24, 2016
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Jun 30, 2016This is a good record, where two inherently different musicians who speak the same language get together in the same room and produce something that’s as amorphous as the cover and as emotionally charged as the album and track titles suggest.
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Jul 21, 2016The two pieces enhance and complement one another to make a combined whole. This is very much a considered and, with regards to its structure, composed body of work.
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UncutJun 22, 2016A heroic mutual soppiness is the key tot his dreamy two-tracker. [Jul 2016, p.74]
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Jun 22, 2016This is a beautiful, expertly paced release that logically fits in with both artists' Editions Mego discographies, both as solo artists and with Fenn O'Berg.
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Jun 22, 2016It may have taken a while, but the rewards of this belated collaboration are exquisite.
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Jun 22, 2016It's the fascinating work of two artists committed to sounding non-committal.
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MagnetAug 9, 2016The distorted, shimmering sound world proposed by My Bloody Valentine's Loveless and perfected on Fennesz's Endless Summer is used here as a gorgeous facade behind which endless layers of processed guitars recede like ocean waves reaching for the horizon. [No. 133, p.55]
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Jun 29, 2016It’s clear that the artists are well aware of the risks of throwing themselves too eagerly into the wine-dark churn, but here, O’Rourke isn’t quite capable of reining in Fennesz’ more impetuous inclinations, and by the end of it, you find yourself craving a quiet patch of warm, dry land on which to catch your breath.
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Jun 27, 2016It’s Hard For Me to Say I’m Sorry feels brief, too, but it’s still highly allusive and transportive, dense and beautiful, like a field recording without a field.
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MojoSep 27, 2016[A] blissful orchestral new age soundscapes, to suggest lapping waves on late summer beaches with just the occasional cloud of gloomy dissonance to add to that authentic 2016 holiday experience. [Nov 2016, p.91]
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Sep 14, 2016This collaborative album, It's Hard for Me to Say I'm Sorry, casually sits somewhere in the middle between tonal ambience and noisy dissonance.
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Aug 16, 2016It’s Hard for Me to Say I’m Sorry, then, turns out to be a good collaboration, one that shows the best of both players, but only when they give each other the room to make this sound more like a conversation than a shouting match.