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8.5
110441
8.5 |
Pitchfork
The experimental musician’s sweeping, ambient album works in small, fascinating ways from moment to moment but has a cumulative force that is unlike anything he’s done in years
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8.5
110481
8.5 |
The 405
Ambient guitar master Fennesz’s seventh album, Agora, is one of his best
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8.2
110482
8.2 |
Resident Advisor
Agora is both a return to form and a leap into the abyss
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8.0
110541
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Agora is hypnotic, transient and valuable and a rarity which although oppressive at times ultimately delivers on a promise as tangible as it is striking
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8.0
110443
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Agora is the strongest, and most cohesive, album that Fennesz has released in over a decade, and that is no mean feat
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8.0
110440
8.0 |
All Music
The unpolished feel of Agora is a bit striking for a Fennesz release, but it's clearly just as carefully considered as his other albums, and makes a welcome addition to his catalog
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7.5
110451
7.5 |
Spectrum Culture
This is stripped-down Fennesz, or at least as stripped-down as music where the effects are the message can be
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7.0
110444
7.0 |
Exclaim
Taken in at a moderate volume, the album is easier to consume, but no less dominating. This is about as far from background music as it is possible for an ambient recording to be
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7.0
110442
7.0 |
Uncut
Much of Agora recalls his 2001 breakthrough album Endless Summer: long, processed guitar drones engendering an atmosphere of extreme, if rather familiar, calm. Print edition only
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5.0
111353
5.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
I can only wish that future releases will reach for an integration of his musical bona fides, a return to melodic luxuries that coexist with an assortment of jagged defects
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