Fahrenheit Fair Enough (CD)
Fahrenheit Fair Enough marks the debut full-length release from Telefon Tel Aviv. For the uninitiated, TT converge their interests in modern/contemporary electronic music, carefully crafted and passionate compositions and arrangements, lush fragile melodies, and harmonic interplay. TT always seamlessly manage to keep their instrumental music equation full of life (organic, if you will) and ever-changing, achieving impressive results along the way. On Fahrenheit Fair Enough, TT often blend elements of atmospheric sounds and synths that echo, ebb, and swell, melodies that float and flutter, while hi-end percussion/beats, slip, slither, and stomp with a calculated lubricious flow.
Fahrenheit Fair Enough is a remarkable accomplishment endearing for its vast colors, graceful qualities, fluid cohesion, and inviting accessibility. TT's sound is best witnessed on the album's title track, Fahrenheit Fair Enough. Here, warm resonant Rhodes keys loop a longing tone melody, live-sounding percussion morphs with an affected downtempo electra beat stutter, that eventually slips into a swift, glassy rhythm with slick precision, a bass guitar keeps things grounded and grooving, while guitars hold beautiful cyclical and soaring melodies, all of this building up to 4 1/2 minutes into the song at which point, unexpected hand claps enter the mix, sending things off to blissful heights. A near perfect song, if we've ever heard one.
| Tracklisting | |
| Disk | 1 | |
| 1 | Fahrenheit Fair Enough |
| 2 | TTV |
| 3 | Lotus Above Water |
| 4 | John Thomas on the Inside Is Nothing But Foam |
| 5 | Life Is All About Taking Things in and Putting Things Out |
| 6 | Your Face Reminds Me of When I Was Old |
| 7 | What's the Use of Feet If You Haven't Got Legs? |
| 8 | Introductory Nomenclature |
| 9 | Fahrenheit Far Away |