Four Tet - Ringer Review

Weighing in at just four tracks but nearly 30 minutes long, Ringer sits halfway between being an EP and an album, exploiting the freedom Domino has to let its artists do what they hell they like. And with artists as talented as Four Tet's Kieran Hebden, it's a very good job they do....full text The cynic's suspicion was that Jack White's Other Band were rush-releasing their second album to head off negative reviews. What rot. Consolers of the Lonely is heftier than its predecessor, both in its Led Zep-go-garage wig-outs and in its cosmic balladeering. And on 'Old Enough', these hepcats reboot the Band with ease. Thrills all round. Craig McLean...full text When the inevitable question comes as to why I follow Four Tet so closely, I simply point in the direction of Kieran Hebden's remix of Beth Orton's "Carmella." To fully appreciate what a consummate genius Hebden is, you have to listen to both the Four Tet remix and the version that appears on Daybreaker, Orton's album of vanilla mush. As the mastermind behind Four Tet, Hebden re-imagines the song with such vitality that you think two things upon hearing it: a) I've been missing out on Beth Orton! And b) this can't be that radical of a departure; he must have had a lot to work with....full text