new four tet

there is supposedly a whole album coming

https://madlib.bandcamp.com/album/sound-ancestors

it is extremely good

https://fourtet.bandcamp.com/track/looking-at-your-pager
^^believe this is actually old but a recently cleared sample? what's the flip?

lovely as always

it's from 3LW "No More" and I'm kinda on the fence about it but only because the melody of the original always felt so effortless to me and this feels a bit contorted, I wish the sample would get out the way because the rest of it is typically lush

always exploring

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

great drums

Oh cool - super 90s comedown track? Has he ever done anything like this?

well this is a treat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=728vP8jorLY
Kieran Hebden & William Tyler - Darkness, Darkness

Nice one, KH really getting back into his early '00s folktronica beats bag.

I dig it, but, a bit of skronk aside, not sure how much William Tyler there is in there?

All the guitar I assume, of which there is a fair amount (besides the skronk)?

It was a cursory listen - I need to give it a proper go with headphones.

xp yeah feels like something that could've been massive in the early 00s

healing music
https://fourtet.bandcamp.com/track/loved

reminds me of something
https://fourtet.bandcamp.com/track/daydream-repeat

album out!

mostly mellow, great stuff, includes three previously released singles

Sounding lovely on first listen. "Skater" reminds me of Arovane ca. Tides.

I recently found out that four test stole a sample from my neighbor’s brother’s band

recently, or awhile ago?

(also, new board description)

It was the sample from “she moves she.” His brother was a locally famous jazz drummer

Interesting! This one?

https://www.whosampled.com/sample/1000929/Four-Tet-She-Moves-She-John-Scott-Pentathlon/

When "Daydream Repeat" hit, I was sold

Yes xp, that entourage ensemble

The downtempo indie/shoegaze/trip hop throwback tracks on this are nice. The dance tracks feel, if not obligatory, at least a little shoe-horned in? These days he's got his killer KH singles, and a few 'pretty' techno tracks on each record. Everything after 'Beautiful Rewind' feels like it's following the same template. Cozy Four Tet is fine but I like banger Four Tet, with some rough edges on his organic palette.

I love this album.

His best in quite a while, surely? The last several albums blended together for me - this one seems like a fresh direction with some nods to earlier eras in his development.

Yeah, listened through today and loved it. Daydream Repeat was driving me mad reminding me off something. Just realised it's *Drift* era Underworld.

*of something

This album is amazing. His best work imho hits immediately while simultaneously begging for repeated listens.

Feels like it's going to be up there with Rounds, There Is Love In You and New Energy for me already. Every song feels delicate, rich and essential. Understated confidence on display big time.

Shoegaze hip hop.

https://sickmouthy.wordpress.com/2024/03/21/four-tet-three-a-review/?fbclid=IwAR3VwECIX8LXYG01r3ri-vf53SeKnVmiN6EVfQmdjiqq7nuiADvRI_oNmhE_aem_AaCUhN5UCI60lW9h6FB6zmT7XlHzAX5OEZEkkv_gefWSaevKY4qJbbthjGxb08ggZf4

Fuck Facebook mangling urls.

Yeah, listened through today and loved it. Daydream Repeat was driving me mad reminding me off something. Just realised it's *Drift* era Underworld.

― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Tuesday, March 19, 2024 1:55 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

ok this got me to listen and yeah it's Custard Speedtalk. fucking amazing. I haven't heard a Four Tet album since There is Love in You but I think I gotta get a copy of this

New Energy and Sixteen Oceans are both lush. The Parallel thing is a really nice ambient excursion. Three follows the two prior very closely really. Beautiful Reminder is quite different.

And if you haven’t heard Morning/Evening you’re in for a massive treat. So lush.

i have not but i think my local shop has a copy of that in

Morning/Evening is fantastic yeah. Sixteen Oceans is really solid, but starts to thin out in the latter half though. Three is just about freakin' perfect.

morning/evening xpost to "jams that aren't on spotify" (at least not in the us). shame.

yes, new record is decent. he's been really good again for a while. the william tyler collab!

My album of the year.

I'm all about Morning Side, used to be on Spotify too

other relatively recent four tet tracks I love:
Planet
Baby
Nova (with Burial)
Looking at Your Pager (as KH)

remixes:
Opal (BICEP)
18HUNNA (Headie One feat. Dave)
Kiss It Better (Rihanna)
Opus (Eric Prydz)

as a bonus he really seems like a great human being

I often think abt his advice on mastering:

just turn everything up and put limiter on the master to catch any mad peaks

the episode of Hanging Out with Audiophiles with him is also great

I'm very happy he won the royalty rate case https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jun/20/four-tet-settles-royalty-rate-dispute-domino-records-keiran-hebden

haven't heard the new album, but have been obsessively listening to "darkness, darkness," his collab with william tyler

https://sickmouthy.wordpress.com/2024/03/21/four-tet-three-a-review/?fbclid=IwAR3VwECIX8LXYG01r3ri-vf53SeKnVmiN6EVfQmdjiqq7nuiADvRI_oNmhE_aem_AaCUhN5UCI60lW9h6FB6zmT7XlHzAX5OEZEkkv_gefWSaevKY4qJbbthjGxb08ggZf4

― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, March 21, 2024 4:33 PM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Great review. There is Love in You will always be my favorite but agree with your comment that he's never made a mediocre album. Totally agree with your comments on Jason Evans's artwork.

thanks for sharing that review, very otm

I went back and listened to a lot of his discography after the new one dropped. Everything Ecstatic is very mediocre to me still (felt the same way when it came out). Just feels way to mired in self indulgent noodling. Nothing sticks to you, and sounds closer to a spastic, jazz freakout record, which may or may not be your thing. In the context of Four Tet's aesthetic it was not my thing. Startling how that one is sandwiched between two of his best, most iconic and career defining records. There Is Love In You genuinely felt like a "comeback" album when it dropped.

Four Tet is an artist who, for a very long time, I felt distinctly "meh" about - an indie rocker's idea of electronic music: pretty enough, but flimsy and anaemic; neither quirky or interesting enough to compete with the IDM/Warp crowd, too sketchy and bodiless to count as dance music, and lacking the satisfying largesse of chilled out home-listening music by contemporaries such as Bonobo or somesuch.

Then a few years ago he started releasing stuff that really made me sit up and pay attention. It was like he'd had some sort of production evolution where suddenly his productions were lush, enveloping, hypnotic and super-satisfying. Loved the more dancey stuff too from KH and some of the remixes and collabs he was doing - definitely someone who had finally grokked onto the idea of music made for soundsystems rather than Apple speakers.

So I'm realy not sure about this record: It really feels like the kind of thing he'd have released ten or even twenty years ago. Pretty, but simplistic chiming melodies, box-ready drum-loops, a noticeable thin-ness and lack of overall bite. It's nice, but it's too nice for me.

Yeah this sounded a bit like an early 00s indietronica record to me too. Nice but anaemic. I keep hoping it will push past the politeness and go somewhere interesting but it never does

idk if i agree. are "31 bloom" and "three drums" polite indietronica

what impresses me about this record is how often it shifts approaches and palettes while remaining cohesive. feels like a four tet greatest hits on some level (not complaining)

Three Drums is a standout and made me keen to hear the album. But yes, washy shoegaze moments aside I'd say it's a fairly tame piece of music. I've heard vaguely Boards Of Canada'y drumloops like that too many times in my life to feel super-hyped over something like this. Same as the shoegaze influence I guess; I mean, it's cool and all and I the track is "nice" but shoegazetronica isn't something that's going to blow me away in 2024.

31 Bloom is as polite as it gets as far as I can tell. Again, it's not unpleasant, but that paper-thin house beat makes me feel like I'm listening to a Kompakt Total compilation on a shower-radio.

So Blue is my fave so far, I like the vocal snatches and the laid-back jazzy feel.

Mostly it's the rhythm on this album, and a lot (but not all) of his other work: Too often it's a vaguely pretty melody just slipping in and out over a jazzy hip-hop drum loop straight out of a Grand Central compilation from 2001; not much in the way of low end. It's all a bit Grizzly Bear for my tastes.

I know he can do stuff with bite. Mango Feedback was great, really effective. Teenage Birdsong was sweet and felt satisfying to listen to. His stuff as KH fkn SLAMS. So he knows his way around a beat. Just here it sounds a bit reserved, dare I say uninspired, rhythm-wise.