One Last Time by fencah: Review

by admin July 3, 2025

July 3, 2025

Fencah’s newest single, “One Last Time,” is a tender and affecting prelude to his upcoming album Small Room, Full Heart. Steeped in memory, love, and personal reckoning, it emerges from behind the drum kit where he’s been a fixture in Austrian bands like Kitty in a Casket and Greyshadow, Max Zauner. Now under the moniker fencah, he steps into a new role of songwriter, storyteller, and grandson reckoning with loss.

“One Last Time” meditates on the fading clarity and lingering echoes of a loved one lost to dementia. Written in tribute to his grandmother, Ernestine Hofer, who passed in 2021, the song is a soft-spoken farewell wrapped in warmth and wistfulness. The track opens with gentle guitar strumming—almost like a lullaby—and fencah’s voice enters with a calm, almost conversational tone, filled with unresolved questions and the ache of remembering someone who had already started slipping away long before they were gone.

Midway, the drums come in, pulsing fast and hard against the backdrop of shimmering synths and swirling melodies, evoking the rush of emotion that often catches us off guard in grief, like the sudden weight of a memory or the pang of something left unsaid. Fencah’s voice rises in the bridge, trailing off with longing.

The accompanying music video only deepens the song’s emotional impact. Composed of vintage family footage captured by his grandfather, it weaves scenes of snowy roads, hills and scenes and his late grandmother into a heartfelt collage, all in soft-focus lenses. Each frame glows with love, and the haze of the visuals mirrors the fog of memory the song mourns.

With “One Last Time,” fencah has put his remembrance into a beautifully understated piece. Check out the music video on YouTube.