The black sea is an inland sea bounded by southeastern Europe, the Caucasus and the Anatolian peninsula. The reference is ultimately to the music's description than a relationship between the music, It's not a black sea of sound but also not as loose and visible as venice, it's thicker and more soothing than endless summer too. With the focus this time on longer drones and sound washes amongst acoustic reverbarance and plucked strings. Fennez's previous style of pop hooks and glitchy granduar synthesis has been stripped away to skeleton form and structure and tune-fullness is pushed aside aside as he attempts to pull stories and fragments of memory from the ether into single tracks full of warmth and magnificence.

This long player's structure revolves around the middle track 'Glide'; a piece with a building crescendo the dips and leaps around (just really slowly) amongst classical samples stretched way apart and a dome reverb, with clattering and popping, broken percussion.

Fennez is a pioneer of this type of sound, it weird how accepting we are of this type of music. Break it down and one man a guitar and Macbook, incredibly manufactured, with evey note he plays on his guitar pulled and ocislliated through probably hundreds of effects chains and digitally manipulated ad infintinum, but his pieces are so organic and timeless, it's no wonder Black Sea is another great album by Fennesz.