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35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Don't call it a comeback...,
This review is from: Rounds (Audio CD)
Rounds isn't really a departure from Pause in any way so much as it is aprogression. It's certainly more immediate and focused, and the level of emotional involvement is certainly much higher this time around. Where Pause was sometimes noncommital and breezy, this record finds beauty in the cracks of plaster and shafts of dusty light, and it's certainly a welcome change from most of the genre's blind and dour worship of the glitch. "Hands" opens the record with an ascending two-chord progression played by "She Moves She" is the first single, and the first time I heard it, I didn't "My Angel Rocks" rides an echoing loop of static and rimshots that sounds like It's worth mentioning at this point that several times on this album, I've "Spirit Fingers" comes through like a whirling dervish, propelled by a especially when it's overlaid with a frantic gamelan pattern. Just when the "Unspoken" lopes along like a Dj Shadow tune with guitar feedback floating over "As Serious as Your Life" sounds like like something out of some forgotten "And They All Look Broken Hearted" reminds me of a more relaxed Amon Tobin, "Slow Jam" is the closer, and it may be the best thing Hebden's ever done. Absolutely essential.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
in response to "stevemncoug1,
This review is from: Rounds (Audio CD)
I normally don't bother with reviews (who reads em anyways, besides you) but his bothered me. I have listened to four tet for a while, thinking their remixes of beth orton and radiohead are some of my favs. I have also listened to tortoise for a while too. While they are similar to the unlistened ear he seems to have missed the point about four tet altogether.While Four tet is jazzy-ish, tortoise is jazzy-ful, and four tet have much more groundbreaking electronica credit, which is a hard thing to accomplish this day full of electrosounds. Rounds should probably get a five star it really is incredible, full of emotion and genius. Not to make light of tortoise, they are in my heavy rotation just four tet, but four tet is a different ocean, very swimmable and very unique.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Beautiful,
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This review is from: Rounds (Audio CD)
As mentioned before, there is an overallmoelancholic feel to the album, but at the same time, there are beautiful swells, plucked guitar lines and crisp - head nodding beats. The beats are large, the snares are crispy - and the production is out of control. At times glitchy - yet totally in synch. Experimental yet accessable. This album is delicious. A very pleasant suprise, and one of the Excellent.
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