From Drusca Sent Wed, Sep 1st 1999, 01:28
From Drusca Sent Wed, Sep 1st 1999, 01:28
Before I get into why I think "Plays" is a great record I have to say that I
loved this record from the first listen before I got a chance to analyze it.
It's just a really beautiful, almost touching record. Now, what I think is
cool about it is the way he deconstructs the originals, the development of the
tracks and his tasteful use of DSP. In my opinion "Plays" manages to be more
"complex, intricate and varied" within 2 tracks than the whole Hotel Paral.lel
album. I find HP a bit static.
Andrei
Sean Cooper wrote:
> >I second most of the above (though I don't necessarily think Hotel ||
> >lives up to the hype, a shortcoming that "Plays" renders pretty moot).
> >However, if Hotel Parallel is "probably the best record on Mego," what
> >does that make "Fennesz Plays"? Chopped liver?
>
> I DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS.
>
> i've read endless praise of "fennesz plays," and while i don't think it's a
> "bad" record per se, i find it mostly without distinction beyond the goofy
> pop tie-in (which at any rate i can locate nowhere but in the song titles).
> whereas "hotel paral.lel" strikes me as a complex, intricate, varied,
> masterful work of lasting beauty etc. same goes for his first ep,
> "instrument," which held up next to "plays" makes the latter seem beyond
> pointless...
>
> what's the fucking deal? can somebody tell me what about "plays" they think
> is so special? i've never felt compelled to listen to it more than the one
> or two times it took to come to terms with it, and an additional dozen or
> so times to try and understand (fruitlessly) what about it everybody seems
> to love so much...
>
> help!
>
> sc
>
> p.s. i agree that comparing fennesz to f.m. is lazy and convenient
> ("they're both on mego!"), but then i'd say that same of comparing him to
> seefeel ("they both use guitars!")...