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~ Four Tet
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Product details

  • Audio CD (23 May 2005)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Domino
  • ASIN: B0007VXZK4
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 31,876 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. A Joy
2. Smile Around The Face
3. Fuji Check
4. Sun Drums And Soil
5. Clouding
6. And Then Patterns
7. High Fives
8. Turtle Turtle Up
9. Sleep, Eat Food, Have Visions
10. You Were There With Me

Product Description

Amazon.co.uk Review
Once again, Keiren Hebden--aka Four Tet--has set the bar high for what can be done with dance music. Kicking off with "A Joy" (doing exactly what it says in the title), the benchmark for the whole album is set early, based around a frenetic fuzz bass riff and a drum loop, interspersed with backwards percussion, it’s simultaneously uplifting and also terrifying. The following "Smile Around The Face" is another literal title, this time far more explicit in its positive vibe; more drum loops, but this time with a grin-inducing samples halfway between birdsong and organ.

In fact, the drums are probably the raison d’etre for this album; in the same way that DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing was a masterpiece of what can be done with drum breaks and instrumental snatches, so this album follows the same path, but on a less aggressive scale. The vigorous "Sun Drums and Soil" morphs into a jazz-tinged number; while a few of the tracks ("You Were there With Me" and "Clouding") are more collections of ambient chimes and noises. It’s redundant to pick a highlight on such a strong collection; just enjoy. --Thom Allott

Album Description
Everything Ecstatic, the fourth album from Kieran Hebden in his Four Tet guise is as demented, clever and downright enjoyable as anything to ever bear the Four Tet tag. Just as Rounds provided a new benchmark for electronic music two years ago, so Everything Ecstatic will, in its turn, redefine the parameters of what is possible within this ever-mutating, endlessly fascinating and incredibly fertile field.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Tremendous, 15 Feb 2006
My first experience of Four Tet was off the album 'Pause' - amongst the wealth of other electronic music that I had listened to over the summer, the organic and 'real' beats were so distinctive and relaxing that I had to go and explore what Four Tet had to offer.

Being accustomed to so many staple bands of anyone's electronica diet - Leftfield, the Prodigy and even the jazzier Mr Scruff, I found it hard to fully understand the point of Pause's underwhelming chilled out 'folktronica'. But it soon became apparent that Kieran Hebden was tackling songs from a completely different angle. Pause brought obvious melodies, took them to the abstract and drenched them in atmosphere - enough to conjure up many unchartered emotions.

So how does this relate to 'Everything Ecstatic'? Four Tet has basically taken this idea of the 'abstract melody' and enhanced it to a hitherto unseen level. But this time round it's far heavier and more accessible to a dance/electronic music fan. Straight away from the first song, heavy beats and a subterranean bass line get you wanting to dance. However, the real gem is 'Smile Around the Face', a favourite opener of a Four Tet live set, mainly due to its extremely catchy melody and crazy drums. It seemed as if Kieran Hebden chose what would be a catchy pop song and tore it up and just used snippets of it amongst endless layers of drums and samples and noise (in the best possible sense of the meaning). But it works.

What scores this album five stars is how throughout the rest of the album he manages to maintain the pace. Not only that, but he uses samples and textures that most artists wouldn't even be able to think up.

Naturally, this album takes many listens to fully uncover how good it is. The abstract melodies only are revealed with a greater understanding of the songs, but soon you will find certain samples genuinely catchy and exciting. Sun Drums and Soil, and 'And then the Patterns', plus High Fives all exemplify this characteric.

So, if you are into any kind of electronic music, I highly recommend this album. It'll get you dancing and in equal measures it'll relax you. In fact, it's just a damn good and highly intelligent album.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Innovative and Beautiful, 16 Jun 2005
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I cannot reccommend this album highly enough. Not only has it spawned possibly the best track of the year to date ("And Then Patterns"), but it is undoubtedly the best collective group of music I have heard in a lnog time.

Real drumbeats mix fluently with intricate electronic textures to create an experience that is both beautiful to listen to and entirely impossible to predict. Anyone who has heard "My Angel Rocks Back And Forth" will feel at home with this record, yet its appeal will extend to wider genres: Radiohead fans take note.

Another fantastic record from your local "Electronic" section that has transformed itself this year into a hotbed of innovation and inspiration.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars his most entertaining release yet, 5 Aug 2005
This is a much more aggressive release than I expected from Keiran Hebdan, the reigning king of folktronica, which is obvious from the first track "A Joy," a big beat banger aimed somewhere between the beginning of Chemical Brothers' "Come With Us" and Squarepusher's more ambient insanity. Only "Sleep, Eat Food, Have Visions" goes a little overboard when it busts out all tribal techno three minutes in. The rest of this album is the sound of a producer hitting his stride in the studio and continuing to grow as an artist with every succeeding release. For the most part, this album is Hebdan's usual mix of eclectic instruments, worldly beats, and static production only classier than ever before with more attention paid to DJs and the night crowd than indie café patrons. Everything Ecstatic harkens back to the passion of the old school raver days while evolving to relevant. You'll be hard pressed to find a Four Tet fan who doesn't think this is his most entertaining release yet.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Ecstatic Again
Kieran Hebden follows up the glorious folk-tronica whimsy of `Rounds' with a more energetic, beat-driven album in `Everything Ecstatic'. Read more
Published on 7 Jun 2007 by D. Newton

5.0 out of 5 stars Electrohead
At first i thought this album a bit weird but it gets better with every listen. Live sounding drums and original synth sounds. Read more
Published on 13 Aug 2006 by T. Fosh

3.0 out of 5 stars A tad Overrated
I had very high expectations of this album from hearing some of Four Tet's earlier stuff such as Everything Is Alright and Rivers Become oceans. Read more
Published on 3 Aug 2006 by Music fan

4.0 out of 5 stars Take THIS folktronica!
With 2003's "Rounds", it was beginning to seem as if Keiran Hebden was becoming trapped in the increasingly bland 'folktronica' formula that he had helped create. Read more
Published on 26 Jul 2005 by jimbo_not_the_first

5.0 out of 5 stars keeps on going...
needless to say, it's amazing. anyone who heard the single (smile around the face) will have had a taste of the direction this album seems to follow... Read more
Published on 26 May 2005 by rboni__

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