or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
 
 
More Buying Choices
14 used & new from £3.49
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
 
   
Rounds
 
See larger image 
Share your own customer images

Rounds

~ Four Tet
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
Price: £6.98 & this item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
In stock.
Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk. Gift-wrap available.

Want guaranteed delivery by Thursday, November 12? Choose Express delivery at checkout. See Details
7 new from £5.89 7 used from £3.49

Special Offers and Product Promotions

Frequently Bought Together

Rounds + Pause + Everything Ecstatic
Price For All Three: £21.44

Show availability and shipping details

  • This item: Rounds ~ Four Tet

    In stock.
    Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk.
    This item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions

  • Pause ~ Four Tet

    In stock.
    Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk.
    This item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions

  • Everything Ecstatic ~ Four Tet

    In stock.
    Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk.
    This item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Pause

Pause

~ Four Tet
3.9 out of 5 stars (8)  £6.48
Everything Ecstatic

Everything Ecstatic

~ Four Tet
4.4 out of 5 stars (9)  £7.98
Ringer EP

Ringer EP

~ Four Tet
4.0 out of 5 stars (2)  £4.98
Remixes

Remixes

~ Four Tet
4.0 out of 5 stars (1)  £7.98
Summer Make Good

Summer Make Good

~ Múm
4.3 out of 5 stars (11)  £13.98
› Explore similar items

Product details

  • Audio CD (5 May 2003)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Domino
  • ASIN: B00008ACIF
  • Other Editions: Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 12,128 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

    Popular in this category:

    #18 in  Music > Indie > Post-rock

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
1. Hands
2. She Moves She
3. First Thing
4. My Angel Rocks Back & Forth
5. Spirit Fingers
6. Unspoken
7. Chia
8. As Serious As Your Life
9. And They All Look Broken Hearted
10. Slow Jam

Product Description

Amazon.co.uk Review

Rounds, the third album from Four Tet, confirms its maker, London-based laptop musician Kieran Hebden, as one of modern British music's most contradictory characters: a bedroom composer that obsesses over the roughest new UK garage and hip-hop cuts, yet tucked up in his studio writes harp-laden melodic pieces that sound like the gentle flutter of a cherub's wings and have titles like "My Angel Rocks Back And Forth".

Every Four Tet album is inscrutably, sometimes indescribably lovely, and Rounds is no exception. On first listen, it sounds like a near twin of 2001's Pause--a cerebral, organic-sounding journey through vistas of gentle European folk music, Balinese percussion and next-wave hip-hop rhythms. But even Four Tet on autopilot is pretty essential stuff: the opening "Hands" layers shards of stroked acoustic chords and chrome-smooth electronic swishes into a glimmering fog of sound, before tethering it down with crashing drumkit percussion; the bare "Unspoken" sounds like DJ Shadow collaborating with some obscure minimalist composer. In this meditative work, Hebden does so much to dispel the notion that electronic music has to be cold and clinical. Long may he contradict. --Louis Pattison



CD Description

Fridge frontman Kieran Hebden returns in his solo guise as Four Tet, following 2001's 'Pause' with his third album of organic electronica. He has collaged samples of global acoustic instrumentation to give his compositions a live feel. Includes the single 'She Moves She'.

Suggested Tags from Similar Products

 (What's this?)
Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
 
(4)
(3)
(2)
(2)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)

Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags
 

Customer Reviews

17 Reviews
5 star:
 (8)
4 star:
 (6)
3 star:    (0)
2 star:
 (1)
1 star:
 (2)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
4.0 out of 5 stars (17 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

 
29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Creative Genius, 7 Mar 2007
By D. Newton (Swindon, Wilts) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

Interesting to see how this CD has polarised reviewers' opinion on these pages to such a great degree. `Rounds' is certainly not an album for hardcore musos only, but neither does it give up its treasures immediately.

On the first couple if listens it sounds like a bit of mess. You hear a collage of skittering, cut-up beats, electronic effects and samples of `real' instruments and other found sounds all thrown together with seemingly no overall design.

Listen on and persevere, though, and the picture changes. Threads of melody and structure appear on each and every track and the album turns into a multi-layered treasure trove of sound. `She Moves She' features a frisky beat, gently plucked strings and a chiming percussion melody. `My Angel Rocks Back and Forth' is anchored by a heartbreakingly gorgeous harp string motif, so simple in its execution but so effective.

The quality does not drop throughout. `As Serious As Your Life' has plucked guitars and clapping frisky beats whilst the superb closing track, `Slow Jam' has an aching melody and the best use of a squeaky toy I have ever heard in popular music.

The music is so rich and dense that you genuinely do hear something new on every listed. I suppose `Rounds' fits squarely into the Folktronica genre and this style of music will obviously not be to everyone's taste (it would be a dull world if we all liked the same thing), but it is a shame that those reviewers who have been so negative about this CD cannot at least recognise the extraordinarily fecund creative process on display here.

I have loved music for about 18 years and this is one of my favourite CDs of all time. An absolute beauty if you give it a chance. Don't let the nay-sayers win the day - if you agree with me, vote `yes' below!

Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful and kinda Haunting, 11 Nov 2004
Mr Hebden has certainly achieved his own style of beautiful and almost haunting melodies and sounds. The 10 tracks on rounds seem to convey feelings such as loneliness and also proactivity. It's quite weird, to tell the truth, but addictive to listen to at the same time. In short what I'm trying to say is that Rounds, as with the other Four-Tet instalments juxtaposes itself in way that doesn't offend but keeps you intrigued and wanting more; a very skilled, and very post modern work, and I look forward to the future of Four-Tet.
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars a delightful exploration of abstract melody & tranquil beats, 21 April 2004
Kieran Hebden's (for he is Four Tet) latest work is an exploration of abstract melody and tranquil beats. The album title draws partially on the notion of singing rounds and repetition. And this is evident in the crisp percussive loops, sprinkled with intriguing pizzicato banjo sounds, balalaika phrases, and the scraps of discordant sample that are perfectly scattered around.

The album is a feast of unlikely juxtaposition, such as the melodic harp and ghostly, scratchy echo of industrial metronome, overlaid with backwards samples of My Angel Rocks Back & Forth. Elsewhere there are sparse and soothing jazzy pieces, gentle rolling percussion, jangley melotron and hints of the Ipcress File.

Hebden says "This record has a 2am lonely feeling, because that was largely when it was made, on my own, in my little flat" - and that is just how it feels. It's an inspired and original collection of delicately chilled and often haunting, melancholic pieces. An album of rare intensity that feels like an honoured insight into the personal moods of Kieran Hebden.

Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)


Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Most Recent Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars Lovely
Wasn't sure if I should get this album or not as the reviews seemed to sway from 'love it' to 'hate it', but I took a chance. Read more
Published on 21 Jun 2006 by whisperingmatt

4.0 out of 5 stars modern electronica
2000 had Kid A. 2001 had Vespertine. 2002 had New Everything. 2003 had Rounds. What will it be in 2004. Hotel Morgen perhaps?
Published on 26 Sep 2004 by Walter D. Nervik

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply an awesome collection of sounds
Futuristic but at the same time warm and atmospheric, this album feels like it could have come from anywhere in the next 100 years. Read more
Published on 14 Aug 2004 by Mr. D. J. Alison

1.0 out of 5 stars Oh dear...
It really must be said that this album is dreadful. Each of the 'songs' follows the same recipe. A mixed bag of shambling percussion, noodling guitar (or 'folky' lute) and random... Read more
Published on 29 Jul 2004 by Kevin

1.0 out of 5 stars Whats going on here?
I must admit the main reason I bought this album was the price but also the reviews which hyped this CD up to oblivion. Read more
Published on 25 Jun 2004 by tintin00

5.0 out of 5 stars outing into electronica
If you've ever seen an Alexander Caulder mobile, at first sight it appears insubstansial and bafflingly abstract, but then, as you watch, the breeze takes it and the componants... Read more
Published on 6 Dec 2003

2.0 out of 5 stars Missed the Target
'Rounds' is an album of instrumental music that draws on world influences and is notable I think for its percussion, which rolls along and varies in pace and achieves an... Read more
Published on 2 Jul 2003 by abbaabba

4.0 out of 5 stars Rounds, Rounds Baby
Much has already been written about Kieran Hebden's previous output as Four Tet, with descriptions centred on 'pastoral', 'lilting' and the unwieldy tag 'folktronica'. Read more
Published on 24 Jun 2003 by birryboy

4.0 out of 5 stars Bizarrely Beautiful
There is no doubt about it. Four Tet are an acquired taste. If you like it, you will love it. You don't like it, there probably isn't anything worse to listen to! Read more
Published on 13 Jun 2003 by Barry Mewha

5.0 out of 5 stars rounds is an album to bathe in
Fourtet, who is Kieran Hebden from Fridge, follow up the sublime 2001 album Pause with this, Rounds, a more beat-centred, organic affair. Read more
Published on 27 May 2003 by okstevep

Only search this product's reviews


Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 


Active discussions in related forums
   
Related forums

What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?

Rounds
88% buy the item featured on this page:
Rounds 4.0 out of 5 stars (17)
£6.98
Everything Ecstatic
5% buy
Everything Ecstatic 4.4 out of 5 stars (9)
£7.98
Pause
4% buy
Pause 3.9 out of 5 stars (8)
£6.48
Sound of Silver
1% buy
Sound of Silver 4.4 out of 5 stars (40)
£4.98
Explore similar items

Listmania!

Create a Listmania! list

Look for similar items by category

Look for similar items by subject








i.e., each product must be in subject 1 AND subject 2 AND ...

Feedback

Ad

Your Recent History

 (What's this?)

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.