Four Tet - Beautiful Rewind (2013)

So I'm not entirely sure what this is; short songs, not dancefloor focused, often feels lacking in melody, not ambient, not especially beautiful... Some of it is very nice indeed but I'm left feeling a little shortchanged so far.

yeah me too!

four tet's eight rinse set was epic though

eight hour

first two hours archived here: http://rinse.fm/podcasts/

Unicorn is lush.

warming up to this now

This is going to be a busy fall for the adventurous dance producer Four Tet, who produced all of Syrian singer Omar Souleyman's forthcoming album Wenu Wenu

http://www.npr.org/2013/10/13/230176762/first-listen-omar-souleyman-wenu-wenu

So I'm not entirely sure what this is; short songs, not dancefloor focused, often feels lacking in melody, not ambient, not especially beautiful...

Are you really that nonplussed by it? It doesn't feel any less dancefloor focussed than, say, a Field or Gold Panda album. In fact that whole middle section - from Kool Aid through to Aerial, feels pretty dancey. Or at least, he's putting house and techno and various post-garage genres through his usual aural hipstamatic filter.

I can understand feeling disappointed if "beauty" is all you go to Four Tet for but this is rhythmically and texturally interesting enough as it is. I'm usually faintly irritated by the doe eyes that Four Tet records usually seem to be pulling, so I'm quite happy with one that makes you work a bit harder.

What's the deal with the distribution of this?

My local independent record shop seem (genuinely) upset not to be stocking the album.

I've seen it on the shelves where I am.

I'm also underwhelmed. Seems to me the album is a bit of blur until the HEY HEY HEY, which is annoyingly mixed way too loud and ruins Kool FM for me

LOL HEY HEY HEY is the whole point of kool fm

currently digging parallel jalebi and aerial a lot

Aerial is... weirdly grimey.

this album is so boring. what DO people see in four tet again?

havent heard either but the paul woolford special request thing pwns this surely

I keep meaning to listen to that given I like pretty much everything Woolford has put his name to with the exception of his actual album, which is pretty clunky.

3 day xpost to Matt: any nonplussed-ness was only temporary as I was getting to grips with it, I think. Pretty much in full agreement with what you're saying now.

the special request album is quite different to this

but also excellent

Finally got this. Initial feeling is that I'm missing the usual beauty. Need to live with it for a bit.

this mix is pretty great, and it presents the new tracks well:
https://soundcloud.com/four-tet/live-in-tokyo

the last five tracks on this record slay. maybe they should have been the first five?

HEY HEY HEY

that too

Yeah, this album takes a while to get going. The first three tracks feel like doodles compared to what comes later.

glad to have these collected:

https://percussions.bandcamp.com/album/2011-until-2014

Yeah, great! Ascii Bot was a cool track from last year.

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

as someone who finds a lot of his stuff beautiful but bland and a bit too samey/pretty, i like this album a lot. its dancey, but very detailed, structurally, but without it sounding anal. its the sort of thing he does better than i ever imagined he could/would.