Four Tet - There Is Love In You (2010)

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.

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.

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.

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.

i really like everything ecstatic btw

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 don't care as long as it's mixed in Dobly.

indie friendly dubstep dribble

thomas dobly

okay that was unproductive but seriously...feel like the above is a growing genre, and it's BORING. (nb not heard this album, it might actually be good)

like if someone like four tet has decided it's okay to make a dance record then that's a sad indictment of dance 09

it's not a dance record! it just has pervasive use of 4/4 beats

This is no more a dance record than anything else he's done.

yeah...it prob isn't even a dance record, which is a sad indictment of dance 09!

i forgot it's 2010

dance 2010

4/4 in 2010

gross

ud think by 2010 we would have left 4/4 behind us

"Guys, if this record sucks then I'm not gonna like it."

the moronic thump of the 4/4 has achieved little in modern music

ok again...

i'm confused now

this sounds suspiciously like a dance record

btw the record i'm working on incl. a dance track with pervasive use of 5/4 beats

1.25 beats

I'm finding this a bit sickly on first listen, a bit like soft focus pictures of puppies or something. I like Four Tet more when he's bashing the prettiness about a bit.

most of Four Tet's music I've heard is dance-friendly... not sure why this says anything about dance music in 2010 (i didn't hear anything dubby or 2-steppy on this at all, but maybe I'm not paying enough attention to the latest *step micro-genres or something).

his sounds like Four Tet. If I heard it in a grocery store, I would guess right away that it was Four Tet. dude has a really distinct approach to song writing... so what if he updates his beats or changes what types of vocal samples he chops up? maybe it reflects what he is listening to. still sounds like Four Tet, still hits the same spot for me that Pause did 9 years ago.

and I'm not even close to the world's biggest Four Tet fan or anything, either.

ok i just put this on and i like it a lot

yeah, I like it better than anything I've heard by him in a while. will buy.

so easy to imagine this music in commercials or in cheesy bars with way overpriced drinks.

Can't imagine the cut-up vocals on the first track fitting into a commercial or cheesy bar.

It's interesting, I'll give it that. Not enough 4/4 beats, tho.

cassie sample = u had me @ hello tho

Not even one of those faux-arty car ads where the Saab drives across an alien landscape while it rains oil?

lol! I'd rather play Mmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm over that sweet ad.

i think the things that are kinda dubsteppy abt this album have been there all along w/ him (shuffled grooves, cut up samples etc) but they just feel more explicit and the production is richer and bassier than b4 but also like i said sleeker and housier

nothing dubsteppy about this album in my opinion. it's only mentioned because Joy Orbison remixed Love Cry. if you're boycotting over straight kick drums, you're an idiot. this is a classic Four Tet album. the kicks are incidental on most tracks, really just a guide/scaffold for the cut-ups, bell melodies and atmosphere. i'm on my 4th time through and it's gotten better each time.

also, richie aprile OTM 43mins ago.

i agree almost cept that the atmosphere is v. different and this feels abt a million times less pastoral than all his previous stuff

This is his best record.

But it's in 4/4!

Downloaded one of those promo album mixes, will riffle through it when I get the chance. Don't doubt this album is a doozy, though.

better than Rounders? Hmmmmmmm. . . .

I thought I'd love Four Tet based on Everything Is Alright back in the day, but listening to the Pause made me a bit nauseous about 2/3 through, it really sagged and ran out of ideas despite some nice acoustic drum sounds, sun-dappled textures etc. That and "She Moves She" put me off investigating subsequent albums. I DLed a nice mix early on, with Can, Hendrix, Byrds, Jay Z, BoC, etc. and a nice segue from Prince Ballad Of Dorothy Parker "it was Joni singin' 'Help me I think I'm fallin'" into... Joni singing "Help me I think I'm fallin'", of course.

First LP streaming track sounds like Hyph Mngo without the groove or uplift, a bit meh. And I thought we left bells/music boxes/xylophones behind with folktronica. Second track is nice. Fourth track sounds like a Bjork sample. Dreaded trip hop beats give way to house beats next. The four-to-the-floors make it all a lot more listenable than sagging boom-boom-bap-boredom. I'm not sure that it says anything whatsoever about "2009/2010 dance". It all sounds pretty pastoral to me still.

Four Tet is... nice. The Moth track with Burial is fenatastic though, a nice update on AFX's Xtal tape degraded dream house with added Burial atmospherics (robbed from video game st's probably), and could go on forever.

For what it's worth, I totally love the Tet but still don't regret having sold my copy of Pause.

People need to get acquainted with Dialogue.

thread needs more nerd zings about 4/4

you started it

guess you didn't read the OG post. just think, you coulda been zinging 4 hours earlier!

r u still here?

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.

Have you heard Jamelia from Swim, WCC? The closing track.

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.

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).

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

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?

If you find that thread, post a link here.

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

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.)

This is such a lovely album.