Four Tet: There Is Love In You
Label: Domino
Kieran Hebden’s been so busy with mixes and his many collaborations with Steve Reid that it’s been five years since we last got a long-player from Four Tet. It’s front-loaded with vocal tracks, but opener “Angel Echoes” clips vocal samples in a weirdly alienating way while “Love Cry” loops a breathy monotone delivery of the two title words. The sonic signature of Four Tet remains: a substantial underpinning of thwapping beats over which quietly insistent patterns are woven via harp, shimmering synths, music boxes, or similarly delicate-sounding instruments. Fans of the project’s iconic album Rounds will find themselves equally captivated by There Is Love in You. A two-disc vinyl edition will follow in February. (Steve)
