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Everything Ecstatic - Four Tet
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77 out of 100

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7.7 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 19 Ratings

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  • Summary: Kieran Hebden's fourth Four Tet album dispenses somewhat with the "folk" portion of his folktronica sound, resulting in a more beat-driven effort.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 28 out of 34
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 34
  3. Negative: 0 out of 34
  1. Tiny Mix Tapes
    100
    This is an awesome, magnificent, incandescent, trailblazing record.
  2. Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
    91
    The drums get busy at times, but never fear--this sounds more like Rounds than it does like anything else. Just a little funkier.
  3. Playlouder
    60
    The question is: do you actually need another disc like this, given that it doesn't quite have that sense of otherness that Boards of Canada have in spades, or that sound-as-texture that Aphex Twin utilised so sumptiously on 'Richard D James', or Amon Tobin's truly forward looking drum programming.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 13
  3. Negative: 2 out of 13
  1. SanY
    10
    Four Tet is easily the world's most exciting electronic producer. "Everything Ecstatic" is an album that is incredibly technical and endlessly layered. "A Joy" is a prime example of this producer's talent for creating a masterpiece from slicing and dicing the most diverse genres. My favourite track of the album is the modest "Clouding," a warm firework display which inhabits the ill fitting mix of ethnic smash and comfortable flow which just encapsulates Four Tet's sound.… Expand
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  2. andrewh
    10
    Best Album Ever. Even better live.
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  3. MichaelJ
    2
    this has none of the charm or melody of rounds. huge disappointment
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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