Notes

111 MHz: ‘Personare.’ The Austrian guitarist and composer Christian Fennesz is back with his first new record in five years. Curiously, the press materials suggest this song was inspired by 1980s pop from West Africa. Which is either strangely elusive or intentionally funny. Cinematic, blissed-out, and warm, yes—but hardly Ghanaian highlife.

—Brendan Hasenstab