Track Listing

1. Made in Hong Kong
2. Endless Summer
3. Year in a Minute
4. Caecilia
5. Got to Move On
6. Shisheido
7. Before I Leave
8. Happy Audio
9. Badminton Girl
10. Endless

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #51145 in Music
• Released on: 2007-01-09
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .15 pounds

Album Description
Japanese pressing of this 2007 reissue adds 2 more bonus tracks - 'Ohne Sonne' & '47 Blues'.

Customer Reviews

A Worthy Reissue
"Endless Summer" has already been venerated in the minds of many avant-garde music fans as a masterpiece. In fact, it has set the bar for ambient, electronic music in the 21st century thus far. Worthy of countless replays, for so many reasons, "Endless Summer" means so many things to so many different people. It's glitchy electronica ultimately reveals underlying harmonies, its more organic "melodies" really offer pop music in mechanical form, and its often-dreamy ambiance reflects an aesthetic perfectly fitting give the title. If you are new to the avant-garde area, there is nothing I can tell you about this album, because it approaches music different than pop music. I will say this; if you are a fan of love, a fan of summer, a fan of dreams - you should probably listen to Endless Summer.

Rating: 9.6/10

Infinity
"Endless Summer" is the only album I've herd from Fennesz. With that said, I can't stop replaying this album. Graveling popping glitching noises, slow progressions, and enough variety to distinguish itself. For people not knowing what they are jumping into, simply put it's strongly electronically and synth based.

I feel this is an album that wont be just a passing fad, nostalgic to me, but relaxing and moving enough to gain strong play from. "Made In Hong Kong" opens the album, nothing very distinct or unique yet. The intro is a sandy glitchfest, slowly moving away from it all with a simple beat and a scatter of sound collages. The title track "Endless Summer" is my favorite, warping guitar sounds, accompanied by simple acoustic notes making way for something so memorable. Rarely do tracks speak to people,I feel "Endless Summer" features at least one track that will do so for you. This album contains so much beauty I'm surprised how low key it has played itself out to be.

"A Year In A Minute" seems simply like a year in a minute (Well six if you want to be technical). Waves of loading like sounds make it seem like it's computing many past events. While there is strong variety, it seems like a theme keeps popping its head up. That being the sliding blossoming/swelling guitars. Not as easy to spot as a punk bands occurrences, but plays out in a good sense. The theme leaves as soon as it makes itself clear. "Before I Leave" is a repetitious consistent note pusher, dialing in as the most linear track on the album. The song remains to one note for a bit, moves on to another, mix in some ambiance.

So what you really get here, is an album thats warm yet distant. Dissonant to commercial music, yet reinvigorating to the indepth listeners. Harsh sounds, but so such an amazing album to chill to. May you gain endless summers of enjoyment out of this stunning album.