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FOUR TET - Everything Ecstatic
| FakeJazz | | Just like last time, the title of Four Tet's album says everything. The last one, Rounds, realized the "Row-row-row-your-boat"-style round using electronics, creating bar room singalongs using beats and spells. This one is even more overtly happy; its title is Everything Ecstatic. Whereas most artists - and specifically electronic artists - would use such inspiration to move towards sunny and sappy pop music, Hebden does everything but. Its nonlinear, filling your ear with invigorating, refreshing, and dirty sounds not trite melody....full text |
| | TinyMixTapes | | How cool would it be to invent a musical genre? The Chemical Brothers gave us big beat. Saunderson, May, and Atkins brought techno into the world. Chas and Dave blessed us with the Cockney knees-up. More recently, Kieran Hebden, the most critically acclaimed musician of the decade, has fiddled with his boxes and conjured up the appallingly-named folktronica. His fantastic previous albums (Rounds and Pause) have given machine-generated music a warm, acoustic feel and reinvigorated the worldwide audience for electronica....full text |
| | Dotmusic | | In an ideal world, this is what you'd find if you sliced the top of someone's head off. Not bone and blood and quivering grey matter, but laser beams and Disney characters, woodland glades and softly tumbling confetti. This is what your Inner Hippy wishes every dream could be - not a confusing, sometimes upsetting, often disorientating jumble of half narratives and semi naked chase scenes, but a soothing stream of benevolent stimuli....full text |
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