Four Tet - There Is Love In You (2010)

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

BEAT

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.

BEAT

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.

Will you lot fuck off out of my thread. I really really love this record and this pathetic pedantry is harshing my considerable buzz.

Serious question, Granny - did you listen to this yet? What did you think? I had a downer on "4/4"s too for a few years back when all I listened to was jungle/dnb but this album is pretty far from being Deadmau5 in its use of kick drums (nothing wrong with dm5, but he's just whomp-whomp-whomp-whomp on every track, which I sense is where your dislike lies?).

how long is this album, it feels like it is over v. quick

47.12 according to the streaming version, I know what you mean though - I had it on at work the other day and it just zipped by.

similar vibe to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1l4pDXbkic

gotta say, this makes great software testing music.

(must be the 4/4 beats)

...i didn't really like the cast in Rounders (besides Matt Damon), but I liked all of the folktronica elements that they tried to employ. Kieran has stated that this album was inspired by his DJ club nights; so it's no surprise to hear the four on four beats. There's no doubt that Kieran has talent, producing alot of his stuff with a very basic setup/pc and audiomulch. His real skill is in the assembly of his samples, which is still evident here/however the overall result feels less accomplished, perhaps because of the disappearance of the jazz inspired drum flourishes. I was hoping to find some of the zaniness of the Steve Reid stuff mixed with the usual sublime fout-tet melodic arrangements - this album at this stage in his career doesn't sound very inventive.

my four tet album/ep rankings:

1. Rounders
2. Pause
3. Everything Ecstatic
4. Remixes
5. Dialogue
6. There is Love in You
7. Ringer

jazz inspired drum flourishes

i haven't listened to rounders in ages, but i think this is what made it so special.

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.

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Friday, January 22, 2010 2:15 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you forgot "faster"

prolly has a better diet

Hey everyone for serious, a really fast and easy way to refer to four on the floor without looking silly is "4X4". Please note in yr diary granny.

ARGH PITCHFORK REVIEW USES PHRASE "STEADY MIDTEMPO 4/4 KICK" ARGH DOESN'T HE KNOW???!!!

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13861-there-is-love-in-you/

it is in 4/4, this is true