fridge & four tet: search & destroy

It really bugged me that they got hyped up in the NME as the first British post-rock band as well, and that they seemed to accept their status as such. I mean, hello, NME journalists, do the names Disco Inferno and Bark Psychosis mean nothing to you? Did you ever read that Reynolds piece that gave the genre its name, in which he just happened to mention 4 or 5 British bands as genre defining acts?

Saying all that, I really like Fourtet's 36:25 and Dialogue's pretty groovy as well. So, Search: Fourtet, Destroy: Fridge.

You can't get Fridge in the States, 'cept on import. Not ready to pay those prices. The Fridge track on a recent Wire Magazine compilation, though, was great. Just acoustic guitar harmonics, but that made a cool tune out of it (I think it was called "Harmonics.") That made me want to track down something more.

listening to EPH today after years and years and it sounds .... surprisingly fresh, in the post-lindstrom pro-spacerock era

Ya, EPH and the expanded version reissue are great. I re-listened about a year ago. I think it's my favorite of their records, though Happiness does have a certain brilliance to it. Seven years ago (upthread), and even now, I can see some making the claim that Fridge was just mediocre and middling. However, I feel like as time goes on they are one of the few post-rock groups whose material I still want to listen to. Back then, I think people chided them for not having enough dark, moody voice samples or crescendos, but I think the very fact that they steered clear of those dramatics for the most part have kept them sounding great. Even the new "Early Output" disc, which is largely not great with the possible exception of "Angelpoised", has a very fresh, tangible creative energy to it with minimal amount of crap thrown into the mix.

Any fans of "The Sun" out there? I was pretty disappointed with that effort when it came out, thinking it sounded sorta "live" in an uninteresting way.

Search: Four Tet.

Destroy: Fridge.

Well that was easy!

ho snap! well done, sir.

Search: Four Tet.

Destroy: Fridge.

Well that was easy!

it's seriously almost like saying "i don't like old music"

It's seriously almost like saying, "I don't like Fridge's music."

four tet's music isn't that much more sophisticated than the stuff he was exploring with fridge. in the end they both occupy pretty much the same head space, and i don't see much use in saying one's worthless and the other isn't unless it's just a style issue.

It's a "style issue" as in I don't like Fridge's style of post-rock (easy label, I know), but I do like the range of styles that Four Tet's exploring a lot. It's not a "style issue" in the sense that I'm trying to score style points, if that's what you meant.

fridge > fourtet

except that recent fridge album which was really dreadful

Of on EPH is my favorite track by Fridge.

Fridge aren't as boring as I remember u guyz

Happiness is kinda decent and sounds less dated than Pause/Rounds atm

Kieran Hebden is a fucking great live DJ. Four Tet i can give or take, but i have thoroughly enjoyed al of his sets...

he has a new single

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YKOy8gn5yU

I rather like it although it takes far too long to reach its peak. Mind you I have far too many German minimal records that are the same and I let them off the hook. Makes me want to go back listen to Ringer again which having had too much of the folktronica Four Tet I skipped.

i think ringer and the split with burial are my two favourites and that's saying some

i am only hearing the joy orbison mix now

the new album is streaming here http://www.fourtet.net/index.php/blog/entry/new_album_streaming
Didn't think much of the Joy Orbison mix tbh, in fact pretty much everything i've heard from him other than Hyph Mngo has been underwhelming.

I think I'll catch up on my Four Tet this week. I've heard very little since Rounds. I remember
"no more mosquitoes" was a favorite song. I know it made it on to a bunch of my mixtapes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOVpmiBp6O8&feature=related

Happiness has aged so well

In retrospective I don’t really get why that album was thrown into the post-rock pool at the time when only “five four child” and maybe “long singing” could even fit in the genre. And even those songs are closer to DNTEL (which I’ve never seen described as post-rock) than say Explosions in the Sky.

I still dig those first two Adem albums.

Oh I should listen to those. It's the sort of albums I left on a must-hear list that kept piling up and I never got to them.