Spent a couple of hours with the Ringer EP from 2008 on repeat last night in anticipation of this, which then happily I was able to acquire this morning.
Couple of minutes in and I am pleased, very pleased, to report that Kieron appears to be carrying on in that vein; 4/4 beats, beautiful loops, no trace of what some might term "folktronica".
― brain thoughts (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 11:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Plus, as usual, love the cover;
http://991.com/newGallery/Four-Tet-There-Is-Love-In-494433.jpg
More "typical" Four Tet-y beat on track 2, still minimal loopiness atop though.
― brain thoughts (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 11:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Female vocals, albeit cutup and looped, on both tracks so far, which is a new acquisition in the sound palette.
― brain thoughts (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 11:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Some more prototypical Four Tet harp/string-plucks start track 3, but the 4/4 beat is still very much in evidence, and the strings are pretty quickly subsumed.
― brain thoughts (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 11:14 (fourteen years ago) link
This Unfolds is really, really pretty.
― brain thoughts (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 12:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Like astonishingly beautiful.
― brain thoughts (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 12:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Psyched for this... is there much of a dubstep influence? You'd expect so given his work with Burial and parts of his Resident Advisor mix.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 12:05 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm not the best qualified to comment on that.
― brain thoughts (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 12:06 (fourteen years ago) link
digging everything hes done since ringer, was always a fan but fuck
― plaxico (I know, right?), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 12:07 (fourteen years ago) link
But if you liked the Ringer EP you'll be happy. I liked the Burial collab; I guess I can see parallels. I dunno what dubstep means anymore. The beats are very straightforward. There's lots of burbling. Lots of very pretty digital loops. Not much in the way of acoustic instruments.
― brain thoughts (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 12:07 (fourteen years ago) link
(they are doing the essential mix on bbc radio 1, this saturday morning if anyone's interested)
― koogs, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 12:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks for the tip, SM, this is fantastic. I've no hard copy yet, but it's streaming at http://www.fourtet.net/ this week.
― Bill A, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 13:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes, there's a bit of Burial influence in this. Love Cry.
― brain thoughts (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 14:28 (fourteen years ago) link
hey any cassie samples?
― plaxico (I know, right?), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 14:59 (fourteen years ago) link
ugh 4/4 beats
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 15:43 (fourteen years ago) link
ah the dreaded 4/4 beat
― sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 15:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Just listened all the way through for the first time... wow, it really doesn't sound like the other Four Tet albums. Not a bad thing at all, just really noticeable. Looking forward to listening to this more.
I loved Ringer so I don't mind the new direction at all. Really glad the female vocals seem to disappear after the first couple of tracks. Love Cry has such a clubby vibe thanks to those vocals.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 19:40 (fourteen years ago) link
ha
― rinse the lemonade (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
This is definitely his most digital release (bar Ringer), if that makes sense.
― brain thoughts (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link
4/4 beats are just lazy and boring outside of a club setting, but if the rest is really remarkable I could overlook it. Is it? The bits of Rounders I've heard didn't do much for me.
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
do you realize how ridiculous you sound
― sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
do you realize i couldn't give half a shit if you think i sound ridiculous
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
ugh people misusing the term "4/4"
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
if you think i sound ridiculous
i assure you, it's not just me
― sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
dude if you can't tell me about this album, how bout you kindly stfu?
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
now i'm trying to imagine what it would be like to only listen to music that's not 4/4 and it's an interesting thought
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
cutty is saying that you mean "four on the floor" or something similar, not 4/4
― rinse the lemonade (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
no, you're saying that. he's just being a douche. 4 on the floor yeah. was just copying the original post. So if I wasn't impressed by Rounders, should I bother with this one?
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:17 (fourteen years ago) link
It's very different from Rounders, but it's also more, uh, "danceable"? I don't know... I wouldn't get too caught up in all this "4/4" shit. It's not like he's throwing down a rave album. It's still a composed record from beginning to end, with all the attendant peaks and valleys (based on one listen).
Streaming for free at http://www.fourtet.net, as noted above.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Whatever the record is, none of it feels "lazy and boring" - I can definitely say that much.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Cool, thank you, def will check out that link when I get home.
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
stop calling it "rounders" ppl
― plaxico (I know, right?), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link
rounders in 4/4 beats
― sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 21:09 (fourteen years ago) link
uh that is so lazy i only listen to songs in 7/4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZbp34ahDzs
― plaxico (I know, right?), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 21:12 (fourteen years ago) link
please to forgive me for getting the name wrong of a record that i didn't like. i can really see how annoying that would be for you. cutty thank you for your help here, much appreciated.
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
i have no idea y u r posting on this thread
― plaxico (I know, right?), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought "Rounders" seemed wrong when I was typing but the correct title escaped me.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 21:21 (fourteen years ago) link
cause i liked all Four Tet up til Rounds, and am wondering if I should give this one a chance. i know it's prob a foreign concept to you to post when seeking knowledge/advice rather than just snapping on mistakes made by others and clowing on them.
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 21:21 (fourteen years ago) link
^leaving that mistake there so you have something to do for the next 10 minutes
huuuuugin youuu! is easy cos ur a-awesome
― plaxico (I know, right?), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Interesting - so you liked Pause but not Rounds? I think the two are pretty similar, Rounds being the better of the two. (Also think Everything Ecstatic fits in with those two records too... and Rounds is still the best.) I've never heard Dialogue, the first record.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm not feeling this nearly as much as rounds or everything ecstatic. i like how he uses live drums and cuts up the vocals, but it's just so easy to imagine this music in commercials or in cheesy bars with way overpriced drinks.
― rinse the lemonade (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Dialogue is VERY jazz.
This isn't 4/4 club bangers, just lots of steady, Field-y, krauty, house-y beats, as opposed to his usual tumbling jazzy drum fills.
― brain thoughts (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
i didn't like everything ecstatic, but from ringer on it was obvious he was moving away from jazz-ey timbaland folktronica towards something sleeker and housier.
― plaxico (I know, right?), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 21:47 (fourteen years ago) link
i really like everything ecstatic btw
― rinse the lemonade (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link
haven't time to read all this thread but I heard there's only songs in 4/4 on this rec? cus if so it's a no buy here
― I think ur a probotector (cozen), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link
;)
― sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't care as long as it's mixed in Dobly.
― Noodle Vague likes a blowsy alcoholic (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 22:36 (fourteen years ago) link
indie friendly dubstep dribble
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 22:37 (fourteen years ago) link
thomas dobly
― sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 22:38 (fourteen years ago) link
apparently there's a mosca remix on its way too
― plax (ico), Friday, 19 March 2010 12:34 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^ wow
― shite new answers (cutty), Friday, 19 March 2010 13:56 (fourteen years ago) link
that sounds like it is from a mix or live set. do want. Floating Points seems like he can do no wrong.
― richie aprile (rockapads), Friday, 19 March 2010 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Sorry, I'm not really feeling this album.
― dog latin, Friday, 19 March 2010 17:10 (fourteen years ago) link
apology accepted
― plax (ico), Friday, 19 March 2010 17:15 (fourteen years ago) link
may have already been mentioned but some nice links from his website (live set, essential mix).
― djh, Friday, 19 March 2010 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
really feeling <a href="http://www.myspace.com/tylertadlockspirituals">Spirituals</a>, it's very fourt tet-y (in the same vein as the new album but maybe more compelling?)
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Wednesday, 23 June 2010 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean Spirituals
i see what you mean
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 23 June 2010 18:52 (thirteen years ago) link
this is really good
― plax (ico), Thursday, 24 June 2010 12:07 (thirteen years ago) link
i couldn't dance to any of this the way you could to say love cry
― plax (ico), Thursday, 24 June 2010 12:09 (thirteen years ago) link
true. it sounds so nice though (and it's obviously produced by a drummer imo...love the rhythmic device on the first track, and the mahavishnu orchestra sample on the second track).
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Thursday, 24 June 2010 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link
i love the first song, which has a burial-influence to it.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 24 June 2010 14:54 (thirteen years ago) link
love the remixes on their myspace too
― plax (ico), Thursday, 24 June 2010 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i first stumbled across that caribou remix on youtube and was like 'whoa, this is way better than the original'. better than the ones that won the remix contest too.
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Thursday, 24 June 2010 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Ewan Pearson tweeter something about a new Four Tet single in Soul Jazz but I've seen nothing; any ideas?
― Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 25 June 2010 04:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Here you go: http://soundcloud.com/soul-jazz-records/four-tet-nothing-to-see-8-49
― matt2, Friday, 25 June 2010 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
is there a rolling electronic type of thread that would encompass stuff like spirituals?
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Friday, 25 June 2010 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link
there are like 5 groups with that sound, no need for a rolling thread
― cutty, Friday, 25 June 2010 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
nah, not that specific, just for stuff that doesn't fall into the other rolling threads (dubstep, house, "funky"?)
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Friday, 25 June 2010 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link
indietronica rolling thread
― cutty, Friday, 25 June 2010 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link
from that Magic For Your Ears website:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LswfoaBeZo
Fan made video for the track Circling by Four Tet. Contains stunning footage of Africa from the Documentry Great Rift – Africa’s Wild Heart.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 25 September 2010 01:38 (thirteen years ago) link
NICE!
For some reason I started thinking about my year-end list today... this'll probably come in at the 2-4 range, it's a really great album.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Saturday, 25 September 2010 01:58 (thirteen years ago) link
What's the bangin'/pretty ratio for the Fabric mix?
― djh, Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
i'd have to listen again but I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
I guess that begs the question "What were you anticipating disliking?"
― djh, Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
I had recently listened to his set from PS1 (which I hated) and suspected he couldn't mix and wouldn't have an ear for how a dj set should be paced/sequenced. It's several different parts spliced together but it works.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
This album (TILIY) is still utterly lovely. Definitely my favourite thing he's done.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 23 October 2011 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
People need to get acquainted with Dialogue.
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― bingo dabber acid, Monday, 24 October 2011 10:11 (twelve years ago) link
http://devonrecordclub.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/four-tet-there-is-love-in-you-round-32-nicks-choice/
Still adore this. All-time favourite status now, I think.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
Can't believe this album is 2 years old now!
Took this revive as a reminder to buy Ringer which is basically so wibbling that I feel shame-faced for not having got it before.
There's another thread about the new old compendium album, isn't there? Could have sworn I saw discussion about it here.
― Queue de Cheval (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
2 and a half years old. Mental.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 12 July 2012 09:07 (eleven years ago) link
What's the other album that came out roughly the same time that felt like an analogue to this? I'm racking my brains...
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Thursday, 12 July 2012 09:19 (eleven years ago) link
Ah, Caribou... that's it. Couldn't get into either of those at the time, mind - a bit too mid-range/not enough bass IIRC - but I'm on a "reassess stuff from the last couple of years" tip at the moment, so I might go back to them.
Nick - are you familiar with Minotaur Shock?
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Thursday, 12 July 2012 09:23 (eleven years ago) link
Haven't spent anywhere near as much time with that Caribou record, TBH.
I have had weirdly opposite reactions to those two artists. Like, whenever I hear Caribou at first thought, I immediately think "this is fantastic, must hear more" but I can't quite seem to make it through a whole album. Like it's a bubblegum high that wears off really quick. But with Four Tet, my immediate response has usually been "hmm, not sure about this. Distinct whiff of jazz" but then I get sucked in and more and more engrossed as the album goes on, and a couple of months later I don't want to listen to anything else.
Listening to Minotaur Shock and have to say it's not impressing me. Like this is everything about Four Tet that turns me off him (the toybox techno, the twee affectations) blown up large without the stuff I love about him.
― Queue de Cheval (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 12 July 2012 09:43 (eleven years ago) link
I talk to Minotaur Shock on Twitter a lot more than I listen to his actual music, though I do have an album by him. Are you thinking he's an analogue to these guys?
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 12 July 2012 09:46 (eleven years ago) link
I managed 1 full song and 2 half ones, and it was my impression that it was that kind of toybox tweelectronica but without the shimmering sense of psychedelic "we're going to another place now" that makes Four Tet so special. Like he took the instrumentation but not the sound palette.
― Queue de Cheval (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 12 July 2012 09:49 (eleven years ago) link
xpost Dunno... The album I have by him would sit nicely next to those others, although it's a couple more years older.
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Thursday, 12 July 2012 09:50 (eleven years ago) link
"toybox tweelectronica" is kind of the reason I couldn't truly open up to the Caribou or Fourtet records TBH.
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Thursday, 12 July 2012 09:51 (eleven years ago) link
I don't really get much twee or toybox about anything Caribou's done since 2005.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 12 July 2012 09:53 (eleven years ago) link
Sometimes people use toybox tweelectronica as a starting place to open this magical world of wonder where the whole world dissolves and you end up in this kind of Alice in Wonderland musical soundscape reminiscent of the deep weirdness of childhood non-logic. And other people use toybox tweelectronica as the end point, where you end up looking like a grown person sitting making music with wooden blocks and xylophones.
I'm probably stretching this analogue too far, but it's just odd that some of my absolute favourite music exists in this sphere of wibble, but also some of the stuff I absolutely hate the worst.
― Queue de Cheval (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 12 July 2012 09:55 (eleven years ago) link
Have you heard Jamelia from Swim, WCC? The closing track.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 12 July 2012 09:57 (eleven years ago) link
Caribou in limited doses is fine! Like, if you play me a Caribou track in isolation, I will be all "that is some damn fine wibble." I just lose patience with it in larger doses.
The most Four-Tet wibbletastic like thing I've heard recently was Ardour by Teebs. There's a song called Wind Loop by him that, every time it comes on a playlist, I think it is Four Tet and have to check what album it is.
― Queue de Cheval (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 12 July 2012 10:00 (eleven years ago) link
I think I much prefer the Caribou album he did before Swim IIRC. The Minotaur Shock album I have is called Maritime, and it's pretty okay (especially considering the dearth of decent IDMish music coming out in 2005).
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Thursday, 12 July 2012 10:06 (eleven years ago) link
What do you think of the new Four Tet stuff? Love Jupiters, less keen on 128 Harps. Not heard the other sides.
This Tinariwen remix is great, too.
http://soundcloud.com/four-tet/tinariwen-tenere-taqqim-tossam
― Citizen Smith (Jamie T Smith), Thursday, 12 July 2012 10:30 (eleven years ago) link
I swear we talked about these on another Four Tet thread! Or I am going senile in mine old age.
Do we need a new thread to anticipate Pink or should we just carry on on this one?
― Queue de Cheval (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 12 July 2012 10:37 (eleven years ago) link
If you find that thread, post a link here.
― Citizen Smith (Jamie T Smith), Thursday, 12 July 2012 10:44 (eleven years ago) link
Actually, I'm wrong, it was a different remix we were discussing, but I was going on about how psychedelic space jellyfish are an ideal incentive to make me like 128 Harps:
new four tet
― Queue de Cheval (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 12 July 2012 10:46 (eleven years ago) link
This is one of those Teebs tracks that brings the Four Tet style wibble for me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PLXW9gTgCo
(I'm not saying it sounds like Four Tet, just that it has the sound palette and atmosphere that I find so enchanting about Four Tet. Without the toybox tweelectronica aspects. It probably won't have enough bass for anyone on this thread, though.)
― Queue de Cheval (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 12 July 2012 10:57 (eleven years ago) link
This is such a lovely album.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Monday, 4 May 2015 15:36 (eight years ago) link