(2017) Four Tet - New Energy    


Review:
Four Tet expands on the new age meditations of his recent singles with a freshly focused New Energy. Fully formed within the endlessly possible creative confines of Ableton Live, New Energy follows on from 2015’s Morning / Evening and features contributions from Tom Baker & Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. New Energy includes singles ‘Planet’, ‘Two Thousand and Seventeen’, and ‘SW9 9SL’, from his latest 12” releases – alongside 11 unheard songs. Mixing his usual classic trip-hop leanings with a digitized melodic and at times melancholic edge, New Energy neatly pulls together the lighter ends of Beautiful Rewind’s house moves and Morning / Evening‘s lush atmospherics. This is most perfectly pieced together on the twisted wheel UKG of Scientists, an offering of solace to those waiting for a new collab 12 with Burial to form. Before the sparkly-treated guitar notes that are a recurring theme throughout bubble up to the forefront on the Coil Dark River-esq Thousand & Seventeen, imagine a rainbow of paint running all over the Coil classics oil black surface. The ambient episodes ring strong also, from the angelic upstart of Tremper to the haunted dialogue of Gentle Soul, a glassy surface capturing the influence of F.U.S.E’s Nightdrive cruise is mirrored, showing Hawtin’s AI belter a strong new mode of studio extraction. This is topped off nicely with SW9 9SL and LA Trance, each a blend of mnml techno tones. — bleep.com


   


Track List:
01 - Alap
02 - Two Thousand and Seventeen
03 - LA Trance
04 - Tremper
05 - Lush
06 - Scientists
07 - Falls 2
08 - You Are Loved
09 - SW9 9SL
10 - 10 Midi
11 - Memories
12 - Daughter
13 - Gentle Soul
14 - Planet


Media Report:
Genre: ambient, electronic
Country: London, UK
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits
Compression mode: Lossless
Writing library: libFLAC 1.2.1 (UTC 2007-09-17)


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