Four Tet - There Is Love In You (2010)

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?

wait in 4/4 time

granny i love when you act a fool then try to blame me somehow

cutty i love when you think i care you or your peeps think i act a fool

also love when you use the word blame in a illogical way.

http://img4.realsimple.com/images/daily-finds/food/0309/df-yellow-peep_300.jpg

lol'n @ u

blame = thread needs more nerd zings about 4/4

^^^ you think it's my fault everyone is making fun of your dumb ass

but you know what, you'll thank us (me and my "peeps"), next time you are at a party and want to discuss your distaste for any music with 4/4 beats

wtf kinda parties

parties where peeps talk about various beats

http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/nerveinsider/2008/03/08-15/peeps.jpg

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DISCONNECTION

hahaha what kind of dweebs feel the need to make fun of someone for misusing the term 4/4. esp AFTER i copped to it. can't wait to go to the kind of party you go to. ok dude, you're smarter than me, you're funnier than me, you're pretty much my superior in every way. now get the fuck over yourself.

r u still here?

― plaxico (I know, right?), Friday, January 22, 2010 7:43 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark

hahaha what kind of dweebs feel the need to make fun of someone for misusing the term 4/4.

I've only been reading this thread silently and smiling, but just want to raise my hand for this.

Also, can't wait to hear this.

just fyi dont want 2 disappoint u but - there are a lot of 4/4 beats on this album

i have been to parties where we discuss various beats :/

pervert.

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CONFUSION

Jordan, at those parties, when someone is talking fast and mistakenly says "4/4 beats" instead of "four on the floor beats", everyone mocks the guy endlessly and just can't get over it, right? And then said dude leaves to go to a party that isn't filled with dick-waving nerds. Bye.

there are a lot of drummers at these parties so no one would say that

my guess is that it would depend on if the person inserted himself into a conversation about how awesome a new album was by saying, "ugh 4/4 beats".

yeah i'm a drummer.
totally taking all the beer with me.

right cause god forbid someone have a contrary word to say about an album people like. they're clearly insulting you and everything you stand for, and no fate is too awful for them.

my point is that people might be more forgiving of someone using "4/4 beats" if they were being nice when they used it. don't mean to pile on or anything - just hoping to help clear that up for future reference.

thanks. i'll be more judicious with my use of "ugh". Inflamatory rhetoric, that.