Description
Four Tet expands on the new age meditations of his recent singles with a freshly focused New Energy. Fully formed within the endlessly possible creative confines of Ableton Live, New Energy follows on from 2015”s Morning / Evening and features contributions from Tom Baker & Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. – Mixing his usual classic trip-hop leanings with a digitized melodic and at times melancholic edge, New Energy neatly pulls together the lighter ends of Beautiful Rewind”s house moves and Morning / Evening”s lush atmospherics. This is most perfectly pieced together on the twisted wheel UKG of Scientists, an offering of solace to those waiting for a new collab 12″” with Burial to form. Before the sparkly-treated guitar notes that are a recurring theme throughout bubble up to the forefront on the Coil Dark River-esq Thousand & Seventeen, imagine a rainbow of paint running all over the Coil classics oil black surface. – The ambient episodes ring strong also, from the angelic upstart of Tremper to the haunted dialogue of Gentle Soul, a glassy surface capturing the influence of F.U.S.E”s Nightdrive cruise is mirrored, showing Hawtin”s AI belter a strong new mode of studio extraction. This is topped off nicely with SW9 9SL and LA Trance, each a blend of mnml techno tones.
- – SIDE 1 –
- 1 Alap 1:22
- 2 Thousand and Seventeen 4:12
- 3 La Trance Programmed By [Additional Synthesiser Programming] – Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith 5:47
- 4 Tremper 1:29
- – SIDE 2 –
- 1 Lush 5:12
- 2 Scientists 4:59
- 3 Falls 2 1:12
- 4 You Are Loved 6:09
- – SIDE 3 –
- 1 SW9 9SL 7:56
- 2 10 Midi 1:25
- 3 Memories 3:18
- – SIDE 4 –
- 1 Daughter 4:55
- 2 Gentle Soul 1:12
- 3 Planet 7:18
