Rounds: Four Tet: Amazon.ca: Music

1. Hands

2. She Moves She

3. First Thing

4. My Angel Rocks Back and Forth

5. Spirit Fingers

6. Unspoken

7. Chia

8. As Serious As Your Life

9. And They All Look Broken Hearted

10. Slow Jam

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Album Description

Four Tet is Kieran Hebden, and he has released eight albums between his solo Four Tet work and band efforts as Fridge. Rounds is a beautiful montage of shuffling percussion, piano, guitar and folktronic excursions. 10 tracks. Domino. 2003.

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3.9 out of 5 stars (28 customer reviews)

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4.0 out of 5 stars BEAUTY, BUT PURPOSE?, Jun 20 2004

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Frank A. Brenner "Fred Failure" (chicago, Illinois United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rounds (Audio CD)

This piece of music flows through speakers like perfectly crafted clouds of dark candy coating. Its delectable, intoxicating, and haunting, but you feel as if this aural feast is lacking in the building blocks. The simple joy of something beautiful is infused within these tracks. It is a cold, frosty, somber joy that is not unlike Nick Drakes folk recordings. The old, "life is dark, and I'm sad but isnt that tree wonderful" kind of feeling. His sounds shimmer, and overlay like a child's view Steve Reich. The abstractions in sound are wonderful, the dissonance is eloquently stated, but the anchoring of these abstractions within a simply gorgeous progression is a bit of an easy sell. Brian Wilson did it with the Beach Boys, as did Dave Axelrod. But to use beauty as a listening marker in a piece of music that relies so heavy on pulses and glitches is an easy way out. The atmospheres created by Four Tet are undeniable, and the level of taste in tone and sound is way above par. Suffice it to say the guy knows his way around a record collection. As a stately bit of 21st century electronic pop it funtions a high art. But the importance of this recording is not immediately recognizable when projected against the new century's diverse musical landscape.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Cheap Tortoise rip off, Jun 3 2004

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"stevemncoug1" (Minneapolis) - See all my reviews

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Wow! Four Tet sounds much like Tortoise, except not nearly as good. If anyone thinks Four Tet has some shred of decency, go pick up any Tortoise album and be amazed by the difference.

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4.0 out of 5 stars THIS IS MY FOUR TET!!!, May 7 2004

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Darrell L. Lee "dlatrell" (Jackson, MS) - See all my reviews
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After getting "Rounds" from Four Tet I must say that I'm still trying to process it. "Rounds" tends to meander a bit from song to song, but the entire set is interesing enough to have me grooving with "Hands" and "Spirit Fingers" to chilling me out with the beautiful cuts, "Unspoken" and "Slow Jam". The feel of "Rounds" is somewhat esoteric, and the production sounds almost amateurish and incomplete, but all in all, this one will satisfy the IDM crowd and chillout fans alike.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An Invitation to Cerebral Revelry
Rounds has a hypnotic effect, rousing the unconscious into cerebral revelry. Many times I have fallen asleep to this CD finding myself in a dream/thinking state, waking with a... Read more

Published on May 6 2004 by hellcatzach

4.0 out of 5 stars Entrancing? yes.. enlightening? no...
A nice collection of music that allows you to just relax and listen. Nothing really got my ears perked with the exception of 'unspoken'- which got me up and out of my door to buy... Read more

Published on May 1 2004 by W. Hwang