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10.0
7815
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The Skinny
It’s 2010 people, we are now officially in the future and Four Tet has got the soundtrack off to a superb start
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10.0
8233
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The Times
The groundbreaking electronic producer Kieran Hebden’s fifth album as Four Tet is a career high
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10.0
19819
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Slant Magazine
It's that rare record where an established artist manages to surpass his own exceedingly high standards
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10.0
19820
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A.V. Club
If this isn’t the best Four Tet record yet, it’s certainly a fresh face for Hebden
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9.0
8710
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The Quietus
It never forgets the value of melody and refuses to sacrifice this notion for the sake of relentless beats. This is an album to return to time and again and one that will doubtless be ubiquitous in those end-of-year round-ups we've just left behind
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9.0
8156
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musicOMH
Even the most curmudgeonly critic will find it hard not to raise a smile or breathe a contented sigh, for this is a true antidote to January living as we know it
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9.0
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Drowned In Sound
...in There is Love in You we see one of the last decade’s most early pioneers reminding us all that he’s still just as important as ever
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9.0
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Clash
If you love the ambiguous crossover between half-step London sounds and crushed and warped 4/4 peddled by the likes of Martyn, Burial or Joy Orbison, then the love in you will find this album
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8.7
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8.7 |
Beats Per Minute
Four Tet’s music is glassy and earthy; it’ll dazzle you with its shiny contours while it humbles you with its firm commitment to subtlety and grounding in humanity
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8.6
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Pitchfork
...it's both heady and physical, subtle but powerful music for thinking and moving or ideally doing both at the same time: It's been a while since a brisk walk through the city sounded this good
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8.0
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Tiny Mix Tapes
...the album is a joy, embracing the idea of dance music, not as a bare idea, but by virtue of having lived in it
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8.0
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The Line Of Best Fit
It’s still far from conventional – ‘Plastic People’ veers towards the mellower side of Aphex Twin – but it’s a long player that you can wallow and immerse yourself in, and let play out to its end
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8.0
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Blurt
There Is Love In You stirs and sweeps, its loop-centric tapestries as lively and as affecting as its uncoiling electronic flourishes
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8.0
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The Guardian
Has the power to delight someone who has never listened to a Kraftwerk record all the way through
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8.0
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PopMatters
Hebden has yet again created a wonderful space where he can rightfully be called sui generis
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8.0
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State
Hebden’s power seems to lie in stringing the listener along as he coaxes us through myriad genres and sounds, never isolating or alienating
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8.0
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Q
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8.0
7648
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Mojo
Print edition only
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8.0
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Rave Magazine
While sometimes it feels as though Hebden has kept only his lightweight work for himself, There Is Love In You is, nevertheless, an entirely idiosyncratic and beautiful creation
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8.0
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The Irish Times
There are stylistic flourishes we haven’t heard from Hebden in a while...But there’s as much newness as familiarity, making this Four Tet’s most accessible work to date
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8.0
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Evening Standard
Once again Hebden has managed to be experimental without losing the human touch
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8.0
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The Digital Fix
It might disappoint final year fashion students wanting to tap their middle finger in time to the overtly complex rhythms of old, but it’s the most cohesive and enjoyable thing he’s done thus far
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8.0
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The Observer
Kieran Hebden has further refined the glistening synthesis of acoustic samples and laptop beats
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8.0
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Observer Music Monthly
...the power to delight someone who has never listened to a Kraftwerk record all the way through, just as much as those who know their Walter from their Wendy Carlos
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8.0
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The Sunday Times
...demonstrate both Hebden’s lightness of touch and his innate sense of allusion and textural darkness
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7.0
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Spin
...signals Hebden's return to meticulous melodicism
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7.0
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No Ripcord
Four Tet envisions the lushness of a song, and sonically creates a buoyant, lighthearted blend – a complete album for the lively and lighthearted
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6.0
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Eye Weekly
This is dance music made for adventurous limbs
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6.0
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Consequence Of Sound
He sounds comfortable on this album—maybe not quite stretching himself, but at least he’s not wasting our time
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6.0
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NME
This LP could have injected some creativity back into 4/4, instead it settles for quaintness
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6.0
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Uncut
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