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- Summary: The ninth full-length release for British electronic artist Kieran Hebden features contributions from Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and Field Day co-founder Tom Baker.
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- Record Label: Temporary Residence
- Genre(s): Electronic, Club/Dance
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Q MagazineOct 24, 2017Hedben crafts the best album of his career. [Dec 2017, p.112]
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Oct 10, 2017Elaborating on the foundations that have propelled Four Tet through his 20-year career, Hebden allows the sonic palettes from records Pause and Rounds to bleed into textures born from transfigured field recordings and sonic artefacts that epitomize the producer's discography while refining his sonic identity.
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Oct 4, 2017New Energy finally feels like an album that is truly unique, and characteristic of Hebden’s style. An artist comfortable with his tools.
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Oct 4, 2017With Four Tet’s ninth album, New Energy, Hebden does something unexpected: He revisits previous sounds. There’s the low-key warmth of 2003’s Rounds, the free jazz at the heart of 2005’s Everything Ecstatic, the friendly thump of 2012’s Pink, the sprawl of 2015’s Morning/Evening. Downtempo nodders, beatless passages that flow into big bangers—he synthesizes all this into his most accessible listen since There is Love in You.
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Oct 5, 2017To say New Energy is a consolidation rather than a progression may seem damning with faint praise, but its palate is so substantial and nourishing that such slight ambition is peripheral. If you’re served a basic carbonara by a Michelin-star pasta chef it’s still a damn fine carbonara.
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Oct 4, 2017New Energy is one of the most accessible, listener-friendly releases in the Four Tet catalog, but it still maintains the creativity and unpredictability that have always made his work stand out.
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Oct 4, 2017The unremarkably housey SW9 9SL tries to up the stakes, but dreamy as the somnolent groove and sitar twinkle of Two Thousand and Seventeen and the nervily upbeat steel pan sounds of Lush are, there’s nothing with the jolting surprise of Kool FM from 2013’s jungle-flavoured Beautiful Rewind, and the album title feels, ultimately, misleading.
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Jan 10, 2020Banger after banger. Lush, Scientists, SW9 9SL, Daughter favourite tracks. Need new releases soon.
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Jun 3, 2019An apex, a culmination of everything that makes Kieran a master of his craft. 9/10.
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