This is pretty wicked. Goes very nicely with the Field record.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 8 May 2009 12:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Liking that a lot
― stet, Friday, 8 May 2009 12:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Plz to tell more?
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 8 May 2009 13:46 (fourteen years ago) link
2 tracks, approx 9 minutes each, collaboration between Burial & Four Tet, very ambient-ey sort of.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 8 May 2009 14:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Limited 12" or download as far as format goes.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 8 May 2009 14:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh right.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 8 May 2009 14:51 (fourteen years ago) link
not so limited, already repressed.
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 12:45 (fourteen years ago) link
hopefully this pressing will sound less arse than the old one.
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 12:47 (fourteen years ago) link
the press release for his upcoming fabriclive sounds good, like this new track locked off it. like a lot. seriously love this guy but he has never made a release that is wholly satisfied. there is love in you didn't go far enough in the direction he's been headed post-reid for me (ringer, the burial collabs etc.)
― ℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Saturday, 13 August 2011 12:44 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.prefixmag.com/media/tinariwen/tenere-taqqim-tossam-four-tet-remix/56036/
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
His new Fabriclive mix is pretty excellent
― Number None, Monday, 12 September 2011 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
yes looking forward to giving this a listen. lots of obscure garage cuts apparently so right up my street.
― sam500, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 04:38 (twelve years ago) link
heard this remix of a track from Nigel Godrich's new Ultraista project the other day on Gilles' 6music show and I'm putting it here because Kieran has completely smashed it (and makes the original seem pedestrian by comparison). Srsly, this is *awesome*.
http://soundcloud.com/indietheka/ultraista-smalltalk-four-tet
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
Also new from Mr. Tet, not sure if it's being discussed elsewhere:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyQVPNo_X7Y
― recordbreaking transfer to Lucknow FC (seandalai), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
I have been binging on Mr Tet lately so I am happy to have some new ones!
I know ILM has generally been down on Mr Tet but god damn there is nothing he can't make sound good w a sparkly remix. I've been on the fence about Ultraista but I'd listen to Mr Tet remixing the sound of the rubbish collectors this morning TBH.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 05:35 (eleven years ago) link
It is really annoying not being able to view/listen to anything with Flash at work.
Psychedelic Space Jellyfish with harps is SUPER DOUBLE PLUS GOOD. I think I've just been so captivated by the video, though, that I'm not really processing the song. I'm not sure about the bass, though. Don't know that wob suits Mr Tet. But who cares, it's all wibbling harps and things.
Ultraista, though. I feel vaguely disappointed with myself that I am utterly failing to be captivated by it. Come on, it's got my name all over it, why is this not total WCC catnip? I don't know if I'm being overly suspicious of something which feels *too* marketed to me, but if a Four Tet remix can't make me fall in love with a song, I don't know that anything will.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
So the proper download of Pink has been out for a week or so. He's doing absolutely no marketing for it. Who's listening? Off one (distracted) listen I wasn't sure it hung together like a proper "album" (excuse my old fashioned rockiest ideas), but it was a distracted listen in the midst of house-buying chaos. I'm just whacking out on the iPod so I can play it via the Zeppelin and hear it in space rather than headphones.
Seemed like plenty of bass, to be fair.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 25 August 2012 07:33 (eleven years ago) link
Been listening to this all week, it's fantastic. I had the same 'not a proper album' issue at first too, but I suspect part of that is psychological, given that I know it's a singles comp. If he'd just released this music straight off as a single piece, I'm not sure I'd have given it a second thought.
'Locked' & 'Lions' are the highlights for me so far, really strong opening.
― Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Saturday, 25 August 2012 08:08 (eleven years ago) link
I need to spend more time with it because, argh, massive amounts of playlists due to various things been floating around this week.
There were a couple of moments I really really loved, but can't recall off hand the song titles.
But this feels a lot less like an album as a collection of songs, and more like a collection of extended 12" remixes, if that makes any sense. Like, this is a collection of pieces aimed for dancefloor playing as opposed to something he's sat down and planned out like an album, like the others were. Which is fine, I like it, it's just a different approach, and probably why he's not treating it like a big deal release.
― my god it's full of straw (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Saturday, 25 August 2012 08:26 (eleven years ago) link
You're right -- it is a collection of previously released 12"s, plus 2 new tracks. Both of the new tracks are long and mostly static. They're lovely, especially the twinkly Peace for Earth, but don't do much in the context of the album. I think it'd work better as an album with something more direct in the 2nd slot (128 Harps, maybe) and Peace for Earth moved to the end.
Locked and Pinnacles are 2 of my favorite tracks from the past year, and I'd rate Pyramid and Jupiters up there too. Love the way the percolating bass on Pinnacles drives the momentum forward and the splashy piano chords take it up to the, um, pinnacle. The triplet accents in the bass line and the off-beat timing of the piano chords drive me to OCD fits of finger tapping and air piano (on my desk, anyway), trying to sort out how the rhythm fits together. Irresistible. I've listened to a lot of Jazzanova style jazz house over the years -- this is miles ahead.
Most of Pinnacles is sampled from Buster Williams' 1975 album/track Pinnacle (starts ~4:30):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAW5GTMA7bU#!
Bonus: bassline for The Choice is Yours at 1:20
― misty sensorium (Plasmon), Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
Sorry that's Noble Ego, not the title track.
Meanwhile, "this is truly glorious":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsDMkDtU9qs
― misty sensorium (Plasmon), Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
Always find it amazing when someone takes 5 seconds of something and turns it into 8 minutes of something else.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 25 August 2012 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
OK after wandering through the woods to this album yesterday, it has finally clicked. I think it's because it's such a wonderful build of a thing. The first couple of tracks didn't really catch on for me, but everything from 128 Harps out just gets more and more beautiful as it goes along. I'm completely in love with Atoms For Peace For Earth the way it turns from "still really a Dirty Dronerock boy at heart" wibble and then slowly builds in intricacy - and then Pinnacles of course is the pinnacle.
― my god it's full of straw (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Monday, 27 August 2012 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I'm really starting to enjoy this.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 27 August 2012 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
http://thequietus.com/articles/09851-four-tet-pink-review
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 14:13 (eleven years ago) link
http://soundcloud.com/four-tet/128-harps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF1DoVdHM9M&feature=related
sourced from 4:00
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
Nice review, Nick.
Would feel more inclined to buy it if it was available on CD.
― djh, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
At my age, 'Peace for Earth' is just fine.
― Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
aw i thought i was a right smart arse when i was trying (and failing) to make a house track sampling cage last night, i'm a smart nothing.
― tubular, mondo, gnabry (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 30 August 2012 00:30 (eleven years ago) link
"Peace For Earth" is great -- my favorite.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 August 2012 00:33 (eleven years ago) link
yes it's lovely. not really feeling the rest of it so far.
― jed_, Thursday, 30 August 2012 00:51 (eleven years ago) link
Love this and would compare it favorably to the John Talabot, as Sick Mouthy did on his blog.
A side note, John Talabot uses all hardware to write his music. Whereas I think Four Tet is software.
Funny that the software music here feels more "organic".
― Josiah Alan, Thursday, 30 August 2012 00:55 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not saying that I dislike the John Talabot at all though, its just a different kind of skewed melodic indie friendly dance.
― Josiah Alan, Thursday, 30 August 2012 00:59 (eleven years ago) link
That's bizarre re the hardware / software divide.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 30 August 2012 05:43 (eleven years ago) link
I mean, I don't make music at all, so I'm surfing entirely on instinct, but some stuff sounds like it's from real things making noises and some stuff doesn't.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 30 August 2012 06:29 (eleven years ago) link
There have been far too many bytes spilled already over the difference between "hardware music" and "software music" (well, at least, if you spend a lot of time in producers' forums.) It's kind of a fool's game unless you have ears like Owen P. I'm not even sure what people are trying to get at with this "sounds organic" or whatnot, or indeed what a "real thing" is. (I mean, if you sample a drum that someone played 50 years ago off a recording, chop it up and rearrange it entirely in software in a virtual DAW, what does that mean when you say it sounds "real" as opposed to someone building a drum machine from scratch using electrical components and is triggered by a manual intervention in real time, but it happens to go "plink" instead of "thump"?)
Anyway, I like this album more and more the more I hear it.
― my god it's full of straw (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 30 August 2012 07:49 (eleven years ago) link
Man, I was vaguely aware of this being out, but I didn't know today that it was digital only. Felt a little foolish after wondering why I couldn't find a physical copy at any likely outlets.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 6 September 2012 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
So I just looked into buying the Japanese CD on import from Amazon.co.jp, and it'd cost me £45; reckons shipping to the UK is £25. Surely that's an outrageous lie? Any ILXORs in Japan who fancy posting me a copy for paypal remuneration?
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 08:13 (eleven years ago) link
ebay for ~£25? - http://www.ebay.com/itm/2012-FOUR-TET-PINK-JAPAN-DIGIPAK-CD-8-TRACKS-/350599156829?pt=Music_CDs&hash=item51a156945d
― just sayin, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 08:20 (eleven years ago) link
Why didn't I think of that?
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 08:44 (eleven years ago) link
And it has arrived. Sounds great on big speakers.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 22 September 2012 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
@ WCC, kind of you to suggest I have an ear for this stuff! Mostly I just watch a lot of synth videos.
― whiter than... this? (Ówen P.), Saturday, 22 September 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
Oh man Peace For Earth.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 22 September 2012 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
For me, the distinction between hardware vs. software has less to do with "sounds analogue!" and more to do with audible compositional processes that don't really require hands-on experience with synths to 'get'. Stuff like ARP or Beak>/Portishead/Anika or Emeralds or the Analord records or some OPN stuff is just composed differently than Rustie or Four Tet or Flying Lotus.
Anyway I'm SO excited to hear this record, it and Flying Lotus are gonna make my autumn great
― whiter than... this? (Ówen P.), Saturday, 22 September 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
This is brilliant. Loving the drums that kick in around 2 minutes in, really good twist on a sound that I'd connect strongly with Rounds.
The Flying Lotus is also very strong. Very summery.
― hyggeligt, Saturday, 22 September 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
Live in the Boiler Room:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9uFygzB-ho&feature=youtu.be
― djh, Thursday, 11 October 2012 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
Is that supposed to be a link? Nothing is turning up for it. :-(
I got really really excited when I searched for him earlier because Google suggested that he was playing in ST KILDA and suddenly the thought of Four Tet playing on a DESERTED SCOTTISH ISLAND which is now a nature reserve was like the most exciting and WCC-friendly gig I could possibly imagine. But they meant the one in Australia, dammit.
I can still hold out hope he might play the Papay Festival or such thing.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
― djh, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
No idea why that isn't working.
Search for: "Four Tet Live in the Boiler Room" on YouTube, maybe?
― djh, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
It's not embedding but I eventually got there with some copying and pasting. Going to have to listen to it at work, though, as my connection is not going to handle that.
http://youtu.be/d9uFygzB-ho <-- hoping this will work.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Davey D, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 18:38 (one week ago) link
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, 19 March 2024 18:55 (one week ago) link
*of something
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 19:00 (one week ago) link
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.
― octobeard, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 00:33 (one week ago) link
Shoegaze hip hop.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 06:24 (one week ago) link
https://sickmouthy.wordpress.com/2024/03/21/four-tet-three-a-review/?fbclid=IwAR3VwECIX8LXYG01r3ri-vf53SeKnVmiN6EVfQmdjiqq7nuiADvRI_oNmhE_aem_AaCUhN5UCI60lW9h6FB6zmT7XlHzAX5OEZEkkv_gefWSaevKY4qJbbthjGxb08ggZf4
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 21 March 2024 21:33 (one week ago) link
Fuck Facebook mangling urls.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 21 March 2024 21:34 (one week ago) link
― 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
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 March 2024 22:00 (one week ago) link
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.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 21 March 2024 22:07 (one week ago) link
And if you haven’t heard Morning/Evening you’re in for a massive treat. So lush.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 21 March 2024 22:08 (one week ago) link
i have not but i think my local shop has a copy of that in
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 March 2024 22:17 (one week ago) link
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.
― octobeard, Thursday, 21 March 2024 22:21 (one week ago) link
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!
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Friday, 22 March 2024 00:03 (six days ago) link
My album of the year.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 March 2024 01:14 (six days ago) link
I'm all about Morning Side, used to be on Spotify too
other relatively recent four tet tracks I love:PlanetBabyNova (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
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 09:20 (two days ago) link
haven't heard the new album, but have been obsessively listening to "darkness, darkness," his collab with william tyler
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 18:58 (two days ago) link
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
― 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.
― Indexed, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 15:14 (yesterday) link
thanks for sharing that review, very otm
― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 28 March 2024 05:36 (seventeen hours ago) link