Four Tet - There Is Love In You (2010)

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.

Nope. I'm a *huge* Rounds fan but this new one is his best album.

it's nice but i'm sticking to rounds & everything ecstatic for what i want out of four tet

Oh wait, I like this. Have only just realised that this is what keeps turning up on mixtapes and going "ooh I like this, what is it?" I should really pay attention more.

I can understand that Jordan. The funny thing is I decided, after a few years of being kind of interested and trying to listen to understand what was so special about him, that I really didn't want or need Four Tet much at all. I owned Rounds and Everything Ecstatic and ended up selling them back. Which is why I have been so pleasantly surprised by my genuine, effortless enjoyment of the tracks above.

I admired Pause and Rounds, without ever really loving them. This new one is great, though - most unexpected.

Honestly I think Tom Ashbrook ruined Four Tet for me. I've heard and mildly liked a few tracks from the new one but I guess I just prefer electronic music with a more synthetic sound palette, or less rhythmic squareness, or both.

yeah i only really wanna hear side A so far, but i really wanna hear it a lot

What did Tom Ashbrook do Paul?

Used "Everything is Alright" as the theme music for one of NPR's most tedious talk shows.

but I guess I just prefer electronic music with a more synthetic sound palette, or less rhythmic squareness, or both.

but four tet is one of the least square, least quantized dudes out there. that's my favorite trick of his, all those free jazz drum samples that aren't quite in time but totally work.

Up until the last EP and this album; hence your 'meh'ness about it, I guess.

I love Pause, and Rounds, and like I like Dialogue (his jazziest! and no one mentions it!) and Everything Ecstatic too, but the Ringer EP took him in a direction I never expected and was very, very pleased with, and the new album melds that with his older work perfectly.

Dialogue (his jazziest! and no one mentions it!)

It's way out of print and I can't find the damn thing............................!

Nick, have you heard the Steve Reid collabs? What's the verdict?

I haven't, actually; I dunno why. I saw him live in about 2004 and didn't enjoy it, and then didn't get EE initially, and kind of went off him - my affections fully transferred to Caribou for a few years, I guess, and I just kind of let the Steve Reid things drift past. May pick them up over the next few months though.

anybody want to buy my copy of dialogue on cd? $100 ;)

Finally reading what was said upthread --

I think I would have been annoyed at one point that music I like may be played at trendy overpriced cocktail bars, but at this point in the game, I like to pretend I could own an overpriced cocktail bar someday and play whatever I want, and it'd be Four Tet anyway.

Cosign.

x-post to nick

Caribou! Is it just me or did he lose some of the following post name-change? I kind of lumped him in the same category as Four Tet and I'm not sure I was wrong, but I haven't heard them in the same context lately.

2001/03/05 they had similarities; I still mentally file them together. They're mates, and DJ at each other's gigs all the time. Caribou's new album also meant to be fancier.

DANCIER.