Four Tet - There Is Love In You (2010)

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.

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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.

I saw Kieran/Four Tet play as part of the Caribou Vibration Ensemble (along with Marshall Allen, Koushik and a host of others I'm conveniently forgetting) at the ATP NY festival last year.

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.
they don't totally work for me. I get the programmed/performed time distinction, but it still ends up striking me as plodding somehow, the same feeling I get from most trip-hop. I'm not a big fan of the jazz style into which he crosses over, either, and maybe that's part of the problem for me as I try to appreciate it

Also spoke to Kieran in the hall for a few minutes, later that afternoon. We discussed mainly the festival overall, the experience and what we'd enjoyed so far. He had loved the Boredoms 9 drummer thing earlier in the day. Can't blame him, it was excellent!

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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.

This feels so weird to me because, as of right now, "Sing" and "This Unfolds" are like two of my very favorites!

I saw Kieran/Four Tet play as part of the Caribou Vibration Ensemble (along with Marshall Allen, Koushik and a host of others I'm conveniently forgetting) at the ATP NY festival last year.

getting there & finding that they were just gonna be jamming on caribou's songs made it feel kind of 'summit of wasted talent' though, iirc

Yup, I emailed the ATP folks at the time begging for a separate Four Tet set and/or DJ gig, to no effect.

who does that

It wasn't as pathetic as I realize I've made it sound, more like an "Any plans to do Y in addition to X?" type email.

im a bit lukewarm to the man but saw him in croatia during the summer at electric elephant and it was wonderful. plus it was dark, hot and a serious electrical storm was on the horizon behind in the harbour. might give the album a shot. the steve reid stuff is great, fantastic live

Floating points remix of Sing is pretty sweet btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsB4aapKZZc

apparently there's a mosca remix on its way too

^^^ wow

that sounds like it is from a mix or live set. do want. Floating Points seems like he can do no wrong.

Sorry, I'm not really feeling this album.

apology accepted

may have already been mentioned but some nice links from his website (live set, essential mix).

really feeling <a href="http://www.myspace.com/tylertadlockspirituals";>Spirituals</a>, it's very fourt tet-y (in the same vein as the new album but maybe more compelling?)

i mean Spirituals

i see what you mean

this is really good

i couldn't dance to any of this the way you could to say love cry

true. it sounds so nice though (and it's obviously produced by a drummer imo...love the rhythmic device on the first track, and the mahavishnu orchestra sample on the second track).

i love the first song, which has a burial-influence to it.

love the remixes on their myspace too

yeah i first stumbled across that caribou remix on youtube and was like 'whoa, this is way better than the original'. better than the ones that won the remix contest too.

Ewan Pearson tweeter something about a new Four Tet single in Soul Jazz but I've seen nothing; any ideas?

Here you go: http://soundcloud.com/soul-jazz-records/four-tet-nothing-to-see-8-49

is there a rolling electronic type of thread that would encompass stuff like spirituals?

there are like 5 groups with that sound, no need for a rolling thread