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- Summary: This third collaboration between jazz drummer Reid and Four Tet's Hebden was again recorded live, without any edits or overdubs.
- Record Label: Domino
- Genre(s): Indie, Electronic, Experimental, Jazz
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Positive: 7 out of 13
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Mixed: 6 out of 13
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Negative: 0 out of 13
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The reason Tongues works so well is not because the song lengths are significantly shorter, but because both Hebden and Reid interact on the same wave length.
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Tongues is a record of surpassing depth and ingenuity.
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Some may blow off Tongues as too jammy or underdeveloped, but neither is truly the case and, in fact, it's unpolished characteristic is core to it's sound.
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Q MagazineThe pair are so full of ideas, there's scarcely a dull moment. [Apr 2007, p.119]
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Hebden and Reid's music is as full of depth and ideas as before.
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SpinShowcases skittering electronics framed by grounded, dynamic percussion. [Apr 2007, p.88]
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The underlying problem here seems to be that Hebden still isn't comfortable in his own skin while improvising, with Reid or otherwise.