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- Summary: This is the first full-length solo release from Austrian electronic artist Fennesz since 2019's Agora.
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- Record Label: Touch
- Genre(s): Electronic, Experimental, Avant-Garde, Experimental Ambient, Glitch, Noise, Microsound
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UncutDec 12, 2024It would be reductive to simply label this as just ambient electronica, even though it fits the bill, as there’s a level of depth, texture and nuance that belies its deceptively straightforward delivery. [Review of the Year 2024, p.30]
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MojoDec 12, 2024The waves that roll through Mosaic are chiller, more austere, but no less beautiful. [Feb 2025, p.89]
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Dec 12, 2024Like much of Fennesz's solo work from Endless Summer onward, Mosaic is a vast, immersive effort that bases its abstract soundscapes in raw emotions.
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Dec 12, 2024This latest release, Mosaic, is Fennesz at his most cinematically emotional. The catharsis at times risks spilling into soundtrack-type material, but Fennesz’s trademark textural warmth keeps the music immersive and involving at all times.
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The WireJan 3, 2025There’s real delight in these waters – and some shadows too. [Dec 2024, p.45]
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Dec 30, 2024Fennesz may not care much if he surprises us, but he never runs out of ways to get us.
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Jan 2, 2025Fennesz' ear for striking textures takes the spotlight precisely once here: through the latter minutes of the opener "Heliconia", he plucks and rakes his guitar as though putting it on life support, the stark tone of the instrument a fragile contrast to the densely processed sound that otherwise dominates the album. It produces a genuinely compelling tension and sets the bar modestly high, this but proves to be an early peak: the remaining five tracks lay down one languorous chord pattern after another, their digital modulations and cavernous reverb settings spread too thin to patch the threadbare cast-offs.