Pretty sweet: https://soundcloud.com/four-tet/designer-four-tet-mothers-text038a
― conditional random jepsen (seandalai), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 23:46 (eight years ago) link
New pay-what-you-want album up on Bandcamp:
https://fourtet.bandcamp.com/album/randoms
― Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 12:30 (seven years ago) link
Know a couple of these from singles - Pockets (Minimal) is lush and funky. Glad he's stuck stuff together.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 12:42 (seven years ago) link
Pockets (Minimal) is lush and funky.
I'd not heard that one before, but it's ace. Reminds me of the Ringer e.p., which is still my favourite Four Tet release.
― Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 15:25 (seven years ago) link
Having been listening to the whole thing, it slots pretty neatly in between Ringer and There Is Love In You, for the most part. Remarkably cohesive in feel, actually - although that might just be because he's so far into an aesthetic now that there's no getting out. Which some no doubt see as boring, but I find what he does right up my street with alarming consistency. Hint towards Morning/Evening in "Gillie Amma I Love You". I'd say this is as good as any of his recent albums.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 7 July 2016 12:25 (seven years ago) link
i missed this new one, adding that to my broken and creaky mental pile.
i'm going back to "morning" at ... 6:00 this morning and what I can't believe I didn't realize about it before was that it's working music, it's meant to be part of the fabric of a life working, a scene of work in the morning, domestic or virtualized. i think of hebden in an airport, doing work on his laptop, bringing a sense of home to his desktop. it sounds pragmatic and intimate to me in the way that the ragas it's obviously based on are, meant to instill a sense of harmony and peace and love in work.
― The times they are a changing, perhaps (map), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 13:08 (seven years ago) link
new four tet:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbGom_FLTCU
subtle but beautiful
― niels, Sunday, 6 August 2017 20:53 (six years ago) link
strings remind me of Rounds
― niels, Sunday, 6 August 2017 20:55 (six years ago) link
great track, four tet is classic
love this
https://soundcloud.com/four-tet/unspoken-promo-version
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 7 August 2017 00:19 (six years ago) link
Planet is gorgeous. Sounds like a combination of his various periods.
― chap, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 10:47 (six years ago) link
yup, it's nice to see this "holistic" development
― niels, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 11:02 (six years ago) link
really enjoying this. reminding me to listen to 0181 again.
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 16:32 (six years ago) link
"Two Thousand and Seventeen" was good too
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Wednesday, 16 August 2017 16:00 (six years ago) link
cool, I'd missed that!
― niels, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 16:27 (six years ago) link
SW9 9SL - beats on this are straight up from Luomo The Right Wing.
― MikoMcha, Friday, 25 August 2017 05:59 (six years ago) link
sounds great!
do you mean to suggest that it's plagiarism or just as good as Luomo?
I love Four Tet's drums, they sound deceptively simple but they're so unique (and banging!), his biggest "tell" imo
― niels, Friday, 25 August 2017 07:30 (six years ago) link
Ummm.. sounds like a homage to me. The track ends up doing a whole bunch of other things also!
― MikoMcha, Friday, 25 August 2017 07:37 (six years ago) link
Just listening to this for the first time.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 25 August 2017 08:21 (six years ago) link
I haven't been feeling the rest of the new stuff but SW9 9SL is fantastic.
― Matt DC, Friday, 25 August 2017 08:39 (six years ago) link
Brixton Academy postcode?
― Cake hawn. (jed_), Friday, 25 August 2017 12:02 (six years ago) link
New record New Energy out Sept 29th!
Look like all the recent tracks he's released are on it:
01 Alap02 Two Thousand and Seventeen03 LA Trance04 Tremper05 Lush06 Scientists07 Falls 208 You Are Loved09 SW9 9SL10 10 Midi11 Memories12 Daughter13 Gentle Soul14 Planet
― Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 07:53 (six years ago) link
World premiere coming up here right now apparently!
🐙 New Four Tet. New Four Tet. New Four Tet. @BBC6MorningShow. Be the first to hear it at around Eleven Thirty Today. pic.twitter.com/YIDnc7OoiY— BBC Radio 6 Music (@BBC6Music) September 13, 2017
― sonderpop, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 10:44 (six years ago) link
Good feeling about this based on the singles.
― chap, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 11:46 (six years ago) link
yup
Planet is gorgeous
― niels, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 12:16 (six years ago) link
New track 'Scientists' (presumably the one Radio 6 played?)
https://soundcloud.com/four-tet/scientists
― Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 12:29 (six years ago) link
I am so ready for this album
― niels, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 12:58 (six years ago) link
pre-ordered from oxfam. it's gonna be good.
― barbarian radge (NotEnough), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 13:23 (six years ago) link
I love that you can pre-order this from Oxfam.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 15:01 (six years ago) link
^ Yeah, I really like this. It did make me wonder how many copies he's likely to sell altogether.
― djh, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 20:46 (six years ago) link
new album out tonight— Four Tet (@FourTet) September 28, 2017
― just sayin, Thursday, 28 September 2017 10:18 (six years ago) link
I have pre-ordered from Oxfam. Hope it arrives soon.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 28 September 2017 12:41 (six years ago) link
grrrrreat!
― niels, Thursday, 28 September 2017 13:41 (six years ago) link
This is exactly what I want from a Four Tet record.
― chap, Friday, 29 September 2017 13:41 (six years ago) link
Btw Four Tet has a spotify playlist with 600+ songs and it’s a bag of gems and surprises I hear it once in a while and I keep finding amazing stuff in there.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 29 September 2017 16:28 (six years ago) link
this album is gorgeous!
― niels, Saturday, 30 September 2017 08:13 (six years ago) link
I’m currently not in the mood to listen to this one but I can already tell I’ll love it when the time is right. Love this new age “spiritual” phase he’s currently in
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 30 September 2017 09:02 (six years ago) link
That playlist looks incredible, enough familiar stuff to get me on board and plenty of unfamiliar names to discover. What's with the tracks with all the wingding type font, is that a Four Tet alter-ego?
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 30 September 2017 09:13 (six years ago) link
might be, he did release a song under a wingding moniker last month
― niels, Saturday, 30 September 2017 14:02 (six years ago) link
moka otm this seems like a new spiritual phase starting with Morning Side (even if Rounds and There Is Love in You are also p spiritual)
― niels, Saturday, 30 September 2017 14:04 (six years ago) link
Not really feeling this on the first pass, I feel like Four Tet's at his worst when he's sitting there making doe eyes at you and there's a lot of that here.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 1 October 2017 11:52 (six years ago) link
Remove Daughter and this might be his most consistently beautiful record. That song feels a bit out of place though...
― octobeard, Monday, 2 October 2017 06:24 (six years ago) link
Where's my CD, Oxfam?!
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 2 October 2017 09:54 (six years ago) link
Yeah, where's my vinyl, Oxfam? Playing it through Spotify is functional I guess. #1stworldNGOproblems
― barbarian radge (NotEnough), Monday, 2 October 2017 12:35 (six years ago) link
bangerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrLrmzYCbf0
― barbarian radge (NotEnough), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 20:36 (six years ago) link
Apparently the CD has arrived...
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 11:24 (six years ago) link
I'm never a big fan Four Tet when he slips into the really dance-oriented stuff, the house beats. I've always got time to check out what he's doing but I've only half-loved most of his output since the Ringer/TILIY era.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 17:01 (six years ago) link
This is very lovely. But I can see anyone not into his 'pretty' side being infuriated by it.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 5 October 2017 16:39 (six years ago) link
Four tet's tech house remix of leave a trace by chvrches is his best banger IMO - a real sublime high point
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Thursday, 5 October 2017 19:23 (six years ago) link
"two thousand and seventeen" is great - always loved "my angel rock back and forth" and this is like a more optimistic flipside to that
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Sunday, 8 October 2017 02:04 (six years ago) link
But I can see anyone not into his 'pretty' side being infuriated by it
Nah his best records have some grit in there to balance the sweetness, you need both to prevent it becoming cloying. This one is pretty cloying and mostly forgettable.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 8 October 2017 09:11 (six years ago) link