that magazine from CiTR 101.9fm
advertisement
advertisement
follow us
Twitter: DiscorderMag
- Thanks! RT @LiveVan: @DiscorderMag wrong info! TLeo cancelled @ Rickshaw. rescheduled for Media Club! http://ow.ly/2AgWL
- Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Plus Perfect, Dead Voices @ Rickshaw tonight. I hear they fill the prescription for good show. Pharmacy puns!
- Never on a Monday! PSHAW. Justin Townes Earle, Bobby Bare Jr., Henry Wagons @ Biltmore tonight, so celebrate before it's too late!
- Purple Rhinestone Eagle. Don't ask questions. Just click through http://ht.ly/2AbTv
- RT @therealpackad: #Vancouver - [today] is the Victory Square Block Party - wicked bands including us all day long. Do it. It feels right.
- A glorious long weekend calls for Glory Days: The Shilohs, My! Gay! Husband!, SINCERELY HANA @ The Biltmore Cabaret
- No Fun City screening / show / fundraiser the Furies, Defektors, Twin Crystals, Vapid, DJ Justin Hagberg @ Rickshaw Theatre tonight
- RT @musicwaste: #Vancouver, get a blanket, a paper bag, & some beers and come down to the Victory Square Block Party tomorrow!
- Like Animals Again, Spring Break, Winniecooper DJs @ he Cobalt 917 Main this end of summer evening!
- MINTO, Chris-a-riffic, Aunts and Uncles, The Greff Band, Fine Mist, the kidnap kids, Weekend Leisure,and so many more @ The Biltmore Cabaret
Four Tet
There Is Love in You (Domino Records)
Review By Adam Mannegren
Four Tet - There Is Love in You
This is a well-groomed album. It’s a solid blend of organic, synthetic and sampled. Synthesized sound joins with harps, guitars and chopped up vocal samples for a dip in a sonic sea somewhat calmer than some of Four Tet’s previous work. As usual, Hebden’s songs forego the usual patterms of songwriting, with a more transcendental and evolving musical flow. Instead of complex song structure, the sound itself is true art. Where the arrangements are restrained, the interleaving sonic textures are complex and rich.
Ultrasound heartbeats open the track “Sing,” which is reminiscent of Hebden’s recent work together with fellow Brit and soundscape architect Burial. Short snippets of digital sound debris provide a shimmering percussive layer.
“This Unfolds,” is a gorgeous ethereal slow-jam which opens with a Boards of Canada-channelling sound before switching into a higher gear with a steady 4/4 beat, and then merging the two with a rich cacophony of melodies and polyrhythmic twinkly bits. It could sound overdone but it’s more synergy than suture.
“Plastic People” is one of the true gems of the album. Percussion and evolving textures form a soundscape that is as deep as it is wide. As much of Four Tet’s work, it’s repetitive but not in a negative sense, rather imbuing a trance-inducing, and tribally sacral, essence.
In the end Hebden’s return is very welcome. The single is a good teaser, but this album deserves its own complete listen-through on a really good pair of headphones.