If a man can be said to be the amalgamation of his surroundings, then Kieran Hebden, the mind behind Four Tet, is the personification of that ideal. He absorbs sound, not just musical tonality but the sound of everyday life, and incorporates them into his sonic palette to create sweeping aural works. Built on the strength of his previous albums, Hebden works his way through the familiar territory he charted on Pause and Rounds and extracts the heart, so often absent in dance music, of these notes and turns them around in new and fascinating ways. The churning, insular work he did in his formative years in Fridge gently seeps into these tracks, as he has ratcheted back the fractured beats, so ready in his arsenal, and opted for a more restrained, though no less expressive, musical missive. On There Is Love In You, Hebden has clearly been influenced by his recent collaborations with Burial and this infusion of another personality has forced him to delve deeper into the heart of what makes this music function, not just on a purely emotional level, but also on an intellectual one. Songs like the darkly introspective “Love Cry” and the album-ending singular beauty of “She Just Likes To Fight” only skim the surface of this set of lovingly crafted songs. With There Is Love In You, Hebden displays his almost preternatural ability to construct complex and fascinating songs from seemingly random swatches of sound and ably demonstrates what can be accomplished when someone with the drive and talent sets out to create something unexpected.
Tracklisting:
01. Angel Echoes
02. Love Cry (listen to the mp3 below)
03. Circling
04. Pablo’s Heart
05. Sing
06. This Unfolds
07. Reversing
08. Plastic People
09. She Just Likes to Fight
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