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Four Tet hadn't released a full album of all new material since 2010's sublime 'There Is Love In You' on Domino, so needless to say 'Beautiful Rewind' is incredibly exciting. Last year's 'Pink' collected together recent singles with more of a straight-up, dance floor edge to them, and his own Text Records imprint has released endlessly inventive works that push club music in all sorts of directions from the likes of Burial, Rocketnumbernine and Daphni in recent years. But there's really no telling where the sounds that make up 'Beautiful Rewind' will come from or what exactly to expect. All we do know is that, going on previous form, this is going to be pretty essential listening.
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Kieran Hebden makes electronic-dance tracks for cosmic states of mind. Beautiful Rewind, the U.K. native’s seventh LP as Four Tet, mixes club-ready rhythms with touches of brain-melt psychedelia: “Gong” opens with rumbling drums and shaky metallic clangs active beneath alien-vocal coos, as if lifted from a ritual by some deep-space tribe. Other tracks range from synths-on-the-fritz freakouts (“Parallel jalebi”) to mantric spells of samples tweaked through trance-inducing repetition (“Ba teaches yoga”). A focus on beats and ecstatic dance fever comes at the expense of more expansive songcraft revealed by Four Tet of yore, but the effect remains otherworldly in its mix of finesse and raucous musical adventure.
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