Four Tet - There Is Love In You (2010)

http://devonrecordclub.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/four-tet-there-is-love-in-you-round-32-nicks-choice/

Still adore this. All-time favourite status now, I think.

Can't believe this album is 2 years old now!

Took this revive as a reminder to buy Ringer which is basically so wibbling that I feel shame-faced for not having got it before.

There's another thread about the new old compendium album, isn't there? Could have sworn I saw discussion about it here.

2 and a half years old. Mental.

What's the other album that came out roughly the same time that felt like an analogue to this? I'm racking my brains...

Ah, Caribou... that's it. Couldn't get into either of those at the time, mind - a bit too mid-range/not enough bass IIRC - but I'm on a "reassess stuff from the last couple of years" tip at the moment, so I might go back to them.

Nick - are you familiar with Minotaur Shock?

Haven't spent anywhere near as much time with that Caribou record, TBH.

I have had weirdly opposite reactions to those two artists. Like, whenever I hear Caribou at first thought, I immediately think "this is fantastic, must hear more" but I can't quite seem to make it through a whole album. Like it's a bubblegum high that wears off really quick. But with Four Tet, my immediate response has usually been "hmm, not sure about this. Distinct whiff of jazz" but then I get sucked in and more and more engrossed as the album goes on, and a couple of months later I don't want to listen to anything else.

Listening to Minotaur Shock and have to say it's not impressing me. Like this is everything about Four Tet that turns me off him (the toybox techno, the twee affectations) blown up large without the stuff I love about him.

I talk to Minotaur Shock on Twitter a lot more than I listen to his actual music, though I do have an album by him. Are you thinking he's an analogue to these guys?

I managed 1 full song and 2 half ones, and it was my impression that it was that kind of toybox tweelectronica but without the shimmering sense of psychedelic "we're going to another place now" that makes Four Tet so special. Like he took the instrumentation but not the sound palette.

xpost Dunno... The album I have by him would sit nicely next to those others, although it's a couple more years older.

"toybox tweelectronica" is kind of the reason I couldn't truly open up to the Caribou or Fourtet records TBH.

I don't really get much twee or toybox about anything Caribou's done since 2005.

Sometimes people use toybox tweelectronica as a starting place to open this magical world of wonder where the whole world dissolves and you end up in this kind of Alice in Wonderland musical soundscape reminiscent of the deep weirdness of childhood non-logic. And other people use toybox tweelectronica as the end point, where you end up looking like a grown person sitting making music with wooden blocks and xylophones.

I'm probably stretching this analogue too far, but it's just odd that some of my absolute favourite music exists in this sphere of wibble, but also some of the stuff I absolutely hate the worst.

Have you heard Jamelia from Swim, WCC? The closing track.

Caribou in limited doses is fine! Like, if you play me a Caribou track in isolation, I will be all "that is some damn fine wibble." I just lose patience with it in larger doses.

The most Four-Tet wibbletastic like thing I've heard recently was Ardour by Teebs. There's a song called Wind Loop by him that, every time it comes on a playlist, I think it is Four Tet and have to check what album it is.

I think I much prefer the Caribou album he did before Swim IIRC. The Minotaur Shock album I have is called Maritime, and it's pretty okay (especially considering the dearth of decent IDMish music coming out in 2005).

What do you think of the new Four Tet stuff? Love Jupiters, less keen on 128 Harps. Not heard the other sides.

This Tinariwen remix is great, too.

http://soundcloud.com/four-tet/tinariwen-tenere-taqqim-tossam

I swear we talked about these on another Four Tet thread! Or I am going senile in mine old age.

Do we need a new thread to anticipate Pink or should we just carry on on this one?

If you find that thread, post a link here.

Actually, I'm wrong, it was a different remix we were discussing, but I was going on about how psychedelic space jellyfish are an ideal incentive to make me like 128 Harps:

new four tet

This is one of those Teebs tracks that brings the Four Tet style wibble for me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PLXW9gTgCo

(I'm not saying it sounds like Four Tet, just that it has the sound palette and atmosphere that I find so enchanting about Four Tet. Without the toybox tweelectronica aspects. It probably won't have enough bass for anyone on this thread, though.)

This is such a lovely album.