Four Tet - There Is Love In You (2010)

Spent a couple of hours with the Ringer EP from 2008 on repeat last night in anticipation of this, which then happily I was able to acquire this morning.

Couple of minutes in and I am pleased, very pleased, to report that Kieron appears to be carrying on in that vein; 4/4 beats, beautiful loops, no trace of what some might term "folktronica".

Plus, as usual, love the cover;

http://991.com/newGallery/Four-Tet-There-Is-Love-In-494433.jpg

More "typical" Four Tet-y beat on track 2, still minimal loopiness atop though.

Female vocals, albeit cutup and looped, on both tracks so far, which is a new acquisition in the sound palette.

Some more prototypical Four Tet harp/string-plucks start track 3, but the 4/4 beat is still very much in evidence, and the strings are pretty quickly subsumed.

This Unfolds is really, really pretty.

Like astonishingly beautiful.

Psyched for this... is there much of a dubstep influence? You'd expect so given his work with Burial and parts of his Resident Advisor mix.

I'm not the best qualified to comment on that.

digging everything hes done since ringer, was always a fan but fuck

But if you liked the Ringer EP you'll be happy. I liked the Burial collab; I guess I can see parallels. I dunno what dubstep means anymore. The beats are very straightforward. There's lots of burbling. Lots of very pretty digital loops. Not much in the way of acoustic instruments.

(they are doing the essential mix on bbc radio 1, this saturday morning if anyone's interested)

Thanks for the tip, SM, this is fantastic. I've no hard copy yet, but it's streaming at http://www.fourtet.net/ this week.

Yes, there's a bit of Burial influence in this. Love Cry.

hey any cassie samples?

ugh 4/4 beats

ah the dreaded 4/4 beat

Just listened all the way through for the first time... wow, it really doesn't sound like the other Four Tet albums. Not a bad thing at all, just really noticeable. Looking forward to listening to this more.

I loved Ringer so I don't mind the new direction at all. Really glad the female vocals seem to disappear after the first couple of tracks. Love Cry has such a clubby vibe thanks to those vocals.

ah the dreaded 4/4 beat

ha

This is definitely his most digital release (bar Ringer), if that makes sense.

4/4 beats are just lazy and boring outside of a club setting, but if the rest is really remarkable I could overlook it. Is it? The bits of Rounders I've heard didn't do much for me.

do you realize how ridiculous you sound

do you realize i couldn't give half a shit if you think i sound ridiculous

ugh people misusing the term "4/4"

if you think i sound ridiculous

i assure you, it's not just me

dude if you can't tell me about this album, how bout you kindly stfu?

now i'm trying to imagine what it would be like to only listen to music that's not 4/4 and it's an interesting thought

cutty is saying that you mean "four on the floor" or something similar, not 4/4

no, you're saying that. he's just being a douche. 4 on the floor yeah. was just copying the original post. So if I wasn't impressed by Rounders, should I bother with this one?

It's very different from Rounders, but it's also more, uh, "danceable"? I don't know... I wouldn't get too caught up in all this "4/4" shit. It's not like he's throwing down a rave album. It's still a composed record from beginning to end, with all the attendant peaks and valleys (based on one listen).

Streaming for free at http://www.fourtet.net, as noted above.

Whatever the record is, none of it feels "lazy and boring" - I can definitely say that much.

Cool, thank you, def will check out that link when I get home.

stop calling it "rounders" ppl

rounders in 4/4 beats

uh that is so lazy i only listen to songs in 7/4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZbp34ahDzs

please to forgive me for getting the name wrong of a record that i didn't like. i can really see how annoying that would be for you. cutty thank you for your help here, much appreciated.

i have no idea y u r posting on this thread

I thought "Rounders" seemed wrong when I was typing but the correct title escaped me.

cause i liked all Four Tet up til Rounds, and am wondering if I should give this one a chance. i know it's prob a foreign concept to you to post when seeking knowledge/advice rather than just snapping on mistakes made by others and clowing on them.

^leaving that mistake there so you have something to do for the next 10 minutes

huuuuugin youuu! is easy cos ur a-awesome

Interesting - so you liked Pause but not Rounds? I think the two are pretty similar, Rounds being the better of the two. (Also think Everything Ecstatic fits in with those two records too... and Rounds is still the best.) I've never heard Dialogue, the first record.

i'm not feeling this nearly as much as rounds or everything ecstatic. i like how he uses live drums and cuts up the vocals, but it's just so easy to imagine this music in commercials or in cheesy bars with way overpriced drinks.

Dialogue is VERY jazz.

This isn't 4/4 club bangers, just lots of steady, Field-y, krauty, house-y beats, as opposed to his usual tumbling jazzy drum fills.

i didn't like everything ecstatic, but from ringer on it was obvious he was moving away from jazz-ey timbaland folktronica towards something sleeker and housier.

i really like everything ecstatic btw

haven't time to read all this thread but I heard there's only songs in 4/4 on this rec? cus if so it's a no buy here

;)

I don't care as long as it's mixed in Dobly.

indie friendly dubstep dribble

thomas dobly

apparently there's a mosca remix on its way too

^^^ wow

that sounds like it is from a mix or live set. do want. Floating Points seems like he can do no wrong.

Sorry, I'm not really feeling this album.

apology accepted

may have already been mentioned but some nice links from his website (live set, essential mix).

really feeling <a href="http://www.myspace.com/tylertadlockspirituals";>Spirituals</a>, it's very fourt tet-y (in the same vein as the new album but maybe more compelling?)

i mean Spirituals

i see what you mean

this is really good

i couldn't dance to any of this the way you could to say love cry

true. it sounds so nice though (and it's obviously produced by a drummer imo...love the rhythmic device on the first track, and the mahavishnu orchestra sample on the second track).

i love the first song, which has a burial-influence to it.

love the remixes on their myspace too

yeah i first stumbled across that caribou remix on youtube and was like 'whoa, this is way better than the original'. better than the ones that won the remix contest too.

Ewan Pearson tweeter something about a new Four Tet single in Soul Jazz but I've seen nothing; any ideas?

Here you go: http://soundcloud.com/soul-jazz-records/four-tet-nothing-to-see-8-49

is there a rolling electronic type of thread that would encompass stuff like spirituals?

there are like 5 groups with that sound, no need for a rolling thread

nah, not that specific, just for stuff that doesn't fall into the other rolling threads (dubstep, house, "funky"?)

indietronica rolling thread

from that Magic For Your Ears website:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LswfoaBeZo

Fan made video for the track Circling by Four Tet. Contains stunning footage of Africa from the Documentry Great Rift – Africa’s Wild Heart.

NICE!

For some reason I started thinking about my year-end list today... this'll probably come in at the 2-4 range, it's a really great album.

What's the bangin'/pretty ratio for the Fabric mix?

i'd have to listen again but I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would.

I guess that begs the question "What were you anticipating disliking?"

I had recently listened to his set from PS1 (which I hated) and suspected he couldn't mix and wouldn't have an ear for how a dj set should be paced/sequenced. It's several different parts spliced together but it works.

This album (TILIY) is still utterly lovely. Definitely my favourite thing he's done.

People need to get acquainted with Dialogue.

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Still adore this. All-time favourite status now, I think.

Can't believe this album is 2 years old now!

Took this revive as a reminder to buy Ringer which is basically so wibbling that I feel shame-faced for not having got it before.

There's another thread about the new old compendium album, isn't there? Could have sworn I saw discussion about it here.

2 and a half years old. Mental.

What's the other album that came out roughly the same time that felt like an analogue to this? I'm racking my brains...

Ah, Caribou... that's it. Couldn't get into either of those at the time, mind - a bit too mid-range/not enough bass IIRC - but I'm on a "reassess stuff from the last couple of years" tip at the moment, so I might go back to them.

Nick - are you familiar with Minotaur Shock?

Haven't spent anywhere near as much time with that Caribou record, TBH.

I have had weirdly opposite reactions to those two artists. Like, whenever I hear Caribou at first thought, I immediately think "this is fantastic, must hear more" but I can't quite seem to make it through a whole album. Like it's a bubblegum high that wears off really quick. But with Four Tet, my immediate response has usually been "hmm, not sure about this. Distinct whiff of jazz" but then I get sucked in and more and more engrossed as the album goes on, and a couple of months later I don't want to listen to anything else.

Listening to Minotaur Shock and have to say it's not impressing me. Like this is everything about Four Tet that turns me off him (the toybox techno, the twee affectations) blown up large without the stuff I love about him.

I talk to Minotaur Shock on Twitter a lot more than I listen to his actual music, though I do have an album by him. Are you thinking he's an analogue to these guys?

I managed 1 full song and 2 half ones, and it was my impression that it was that kind of toybox tweelectronica but without the shimmering sense of psychedelic "we're going to another place now" that makes Four Tet so special. Like he took the instrumentation but not the sound palette.

xpost Dunno... The album I have by him would sit nicely next to those others, although it's a couple more years older.

"toybox tweelectronica" is kind of the reason I couldn't truly open up to the Caribou or Fourtet records TBH.

I don't really get much twee or toybox about anything Caribou's done since 2005.

Sometimes people use toybox tweelectronica as a starting place to open this magical world of wonder where the whole world dissolves and you end up in this kind of Alice in Wonderland musical soundscape reminiscent of the deep weirdness of childhood non-logic. And other people use toybox tweelectronica as the end point, where you end up looking like a grown person sitting making music with wooden blocks and xylophones.

I'm probably stretching this analogue too far, but it's just odd that some of my absolute favourite music exists in this sphere of wibble, but also some of the stuff I absolutely hate the worst.

Have you heard Jamelia from Swim, WCC? The closing track.

Caribou in limited doses is fine! Like, if you play me a Caribou track in isolation, I will be all "that is some damn fine wibble." I just lose patience with it in larger doses.

The most Four-Tet wibbletastic like thing I've heard recently was Ardour by Teebs. There's a song called Wind Loop by him that, every time it comes on a playlist, I think it is Four Tet and have to check what album it is.

I think I much prefer the Caribou album he did before Swim IIRC. The Minotaur Shock album I have is called Maritime, and it's pretty okay (especially considering the dearth of decent IDMish music coming out in 2005).

What do you think of the new Four Tet stuff? Love Jupiters, less keen on 128 Harps. Not heard the other sides.

This Tinariwen remix is great, too.

http://soundcloud.com/four-tet/tinariwen-tenere-taqqim-tossam

I swear we talked about these on another Four Tet thread! Or I am going senile in mine old age.

Do we need a new thread to anticipate Pink or should we just carry on on this one?

If you find that thread, post a link here.

Actually, I'm wrong, it was a different remix we were discussing, but I was going on about how psychedelic space jellyfish are an ideal incentive to make me like 128 Harps:

new four tet

This is one of those Teebs tracks that brings the Four Tet style wibble for me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PLXW9gTgCo

(I'm not saying it sounds like Four Tet, just that it has the sound palette and atmosphere that I find so enchanting about Four Tet. Without the toybox tweelectronica aspects. It probably won't have enough bass for anyone on this thread, though.)

This is such a lovely album.