- Summary: The second release for British producer Kieran Hebden in 2013 as Four Tet is his first full-length since 2010's There Is Love in You.
- Record Label: Text
- Genre(s): Electronic, Pop/Rock, Club/Dance
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 12
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Mixed: 1 out of 12
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Negative: 0 out of 12
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Oct 15, 201390From the brash, banging tracks all the way to the idyllic soft touches, Beautiful Rewind is captivating and completely refreshing to hear.
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Oct 16, 201385It sprawls and can feel tenuous, even precipitously close to collapse under its own weight, but the moment of calamity never arrives. It stands instead as a monument not to the person who has erected it, but to the multitudinous influences that brought it into being.
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Oct 10, 201380At times it’s a strange record. The rough tones don’t register as forcefully as the hooks on previous works. That said, it’s a rewarding listen, one that eventually embeds itself once given full attention.
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Oct 10, 201380Beautiful Rewind is the sound of an artist looking to cut loose, and its playful spirit proves catching.
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Oct 10, 201380In general, the album's tracks take more risks, and surprise in a way that we've not quite heard from Hebden before.
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Oct 15, 201380Even though Beautiful Rewind is a call to dance music's past, it's the contemporary, more experimental sounds that establish the album as a standout in both the Four Tet oeuvre and a growing collection of dance albums that pay homage to the past.
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Oct 15, 201358As with The King of the Limbs, Beautiful Rewind is always keeping us at arm’s length, coldly allowing us to admire the craft without letting us in on the secret. It can make for a lonely listen.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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