Four Tet - There Is Love In You (2010)

it is in 4/4, this is true

That was the first time I read that he went to school with Burial. Would like to see that class picture.

Well, he went to the same school AS Burial; I doubt they were there at the same time (see also Hot Chip, The XX - all alumni of the same school).

Burial was in the year above Hot Chip and all of Fridge were in the year above that. From a Hot Chip interview I did around the last album.

Joe: "Every couple of weeks on a Friday lunchtime I’d get people to perform different yhings. Sometimes it would be poetry or music. Kieran played a half-hour improvised guitar piece one week. Adem actually ran it the year before me. We used to go and see Fridge. I probably saw them eight or nine times. I guess that gave us a lot of udnerstanding of the routes that bands can take."
Alexis: "They were the first band of people we knew who’d got a record deal. They were straight out of sixth form. For a while all I thought of was we should make music together and try to get someone to release it, like what happened to Fridge."

Looking at the transcript again, it seems that members of So Solid Crew, the Maccabees, Trencher and the Elysian Quartet were all there around the same time. Must be quite a music dept.

Muse's bassist was the year above porn star Layla Jade at my school (Bellamy and the drummer were the year above that); almost as good.

That's quite a fucking school talent show.

Frankly I'm surprised no one's made a Four/Four Tet joke at this point.

I haven't really heard that much by this guy (strange by my standards). Since when did he change from a early-thousands "folktronica" also ran to the most namechecked producer in the land?

Also ran? Didn't he basically invent it? The first time I heard the word was in connection with his stuff.

really been enjoying going back to rounds & everything ecstatic this week

I should clarify that every early-thousands "folktronica" geezer was an also-ran back then.

the most namechecked producer in the land

just how is this the case? he's always had the same profile

^^^ he's always been highly respected and sold a decent number of records.

love this record more than any of his others btw.

i feel like the thing he got out of the steve reid collab was learning how to do less

dog latin why don't you listen to his music first

guys I think you mean "Four on the Floor Tet"

two elephants and a cymbal

this shit sounds pretty controversial

its got a track that samples cassie

Exasperation @ doglatin.

but it's just so easy to imagine this music in commercials or in cheesy bars with way overpriced drinks.

Can we PLEASE put a moratorium on this lazy, overused, faux-class-based rhetorical jab? Of all the strawmen in the world that are just begging to be doused with gasoline and set alight...

I must say that comment did annoy me but I let it fly cos I usually like Jordan.

i used to play jazz gigs at this one bar all the time, and they would always, always have some kind of tasteful, world-y electronic music on. i LIKE tasteful, world-y electronic music, but the whole vibe nearly ruined some of the good shit (cinematic orchestra, amon tobin, etc.) for me.

and now it's sort of a personal yardstick for me, like "can i hear it being played at this bar, or does it have too much edge for that?"

you used to play gigs there

See, Cinematic Orchestra, to me, are exactly the kind of boring, played-in-the-arts-centre stuff you seem to be bemoaning - whereas Four Tet, and OH GOD THIS ALBUM WHICH I LOVE SO MUCH is what I take home with me clutched to my chest and play and play and play for myself.

It initially struck me that Steely Dan made music for proto-yuppies who hung out in Woody Allen-ish Upper West Side bars with patches on the elbows of their corduroy blazers who spent their time going to wine- tastings and earnestly discussing the aesthetic merits of duck decoys as a decorative flourish.

― Alex in NYC, Sunday, June 2, 2002 7:00 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Steely Dan = Highly literate, xenophobic musos with unapologetic jazz leanings and studio know-how, making music designed for Manhattan divorcee bars and aesthetes in corduroy blazers.

― Alex in NYC, Thursday, July 25, 2002 7:00 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

It's still music for wine & cheese afficianados who wear patches on the elbows of their corduroy blazers.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, June 4, 2004 9:08 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Masturbatory coffee-table jazz-rock noodlery for people with patches on the elbows of their corduroy blazers hanging out in wine bars.

― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, November 14, 2007 4:44 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Steely Dan have always been awful, wine-bar, patches-on-the-elbows-of-your-corduroy-blazer CRAP.

― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, May 6, 2008 2:09 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This isn't world-y electronic music; it's blissful end-of-the-night house, or end-of-the-breakwater ambient, or middle-of-the-city techno, or...

xpost, hahaha

you used to play gigs there

― sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Tuesday, January 26, 2010 1:17 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

gotta work. i still play there, just not as much.

…it's rounds, not rounders, right?

THANK YOU!

end-of-the-breakwater ambient

Somehow I read that as "windbreaker ambient," which given the pouring rain here on Kauai today, and the way it fits nicely with the new Four Tet, seems like a great description. I'm gonna start using it, I think...

I'm happy with that.

definitely a genre that needed to be created

he's definitely benefited from the reid collabs and for my money has just got better and better - am loving the sort of housier edge some of the new stuff has ...

also - while am thinking of his successes this past decade that thom yorke mix he did from a couple of year ago needs some love an all ...

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

My favorite remix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xsf_BFhv3U

Takes a dreadful, anonymous-girl-with-piano tune and turns it into something bordering on transcendent.

Bit harsh on the original (especially if you've seen the Six Feet Under finale) but yes, that's a ravishing remix.

re: Steely Dan

Alex in NYC is my hero

really love "windbreaker ambient," someone get on that

(especially if you've seen the Six Feet Under finale)

One of my favorite shows, yes, and I'll admit it's put to great use in the final scene.

Is the loop in "Sing" really the Super Mario Bros theme? Sure sounds like it could be.

New York Times piece: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/arts/music/19tet.html?ref=music

So I'm seeing Four Tet and Nathan Fake tonight in Austin -- really can't wait. Somehow I've never managed to see Kieran live, despite having been a fan since Pause, he's only been through Texas a couple of times that I can recall, and I've always managed to miss him. Heard great things about his live show these days and I'm beyond excited...

I gotta say take side A (Angel Echoes --> Love Cry) and side D (Plastic People --> She Just Likes to Fight) put them as side A and B on one record and you've got a phenomenal EP for my tastes. The rest hasn't stuck but those four are great.

See, those are probably my least-favoured tracks. Circling and This Unfolds are the ones for me.

This has become my default reading-while-on-the-train album but at the same time I wish it wanted to something more than just sit there being pretty.

Overall Rounds is way better than this.