Cynicism masquerading as Criticism: Today's Fennesz Review in Pitchfork

"In the wake of the critical and (by Mego standards) commercial success of last year's Endless Summer, Touch presents Field Recordings 1995-2002, an assortment of compilation contributions, soundtrack work, unreleased tracks, and remixes from laptop wunderkind Fennesz -- plus the entirety of the notable 1996 debut EP Instrument. It's interesting to hear Fennesz again stripped of the conceptual cues that played a part in Endless Summer's success. In addition to the fantastic music, Endless Summer was a triumph of small label indie marketing. It's true that it had thematic unity and a good half the tracks followed the pattern of the Plays single, dissecting the structures of pop music in the context of an abstract computer-composed record. But if Fennesz had given the album a title like XRtN8ts and slapped some vector graphics on the cover, there's no way in hell the words "beach" or "boys" would have made it into a single review."