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FOUR TET - New Energy - Vinyl (gatefold 2xLP)
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Cat: TEXT 046LP. Rel: 16 Oct 17
Deep House
Side 1 - Track 1. Alap Side 1 - Track 2. Two Thousand & Seventeen Side 1 - Track 3. LA Trance Side 1 - Track 4. Tremper Side 2 - Track 1. Lush Side 2 - Track 2. Scientists Side 2 - Track 3. Falls 2 Side 2 - Track 4. You Are Loved Side 3 - Track 1. SW9 9SL Side 3 - Track 2. 10 Midi Side 3 - Track 3. Memories Side 4 - Track 1. Daughter Side 4 - Track 2. Gentle Soul Side 4 - Track 3. Planet
If you were judging Kieran Hebden's 11th Four Tet studio album merely on the way it's presented, you'd immediately think he'd spent the last two years immersed in early '90s ambient house albums. While it's unlikely he's done that, it's fair to say that New Energy does owe a debt to classic electronica sets from that period. For all the exotic instrumentation and subtle nods to post-dubstep "aquacrunk" experimentalism and chiming, head-in-the-clouds sunrise house, the album feels like a relic of a lost era. That's not meant as a criticism - New Energy is superb - but it is true that his choice of neo-classical strings, gentle new age melodies, sweeping synthesizer chords and disconnected vocal samples would not sound out of place on a Global Communication album.
