Four Tet

Four Tet

Everything Ecstatic

[2] A running joke among music reviewers is that “interesting” is really code for “I’ll never listen to it again.” Textbook example: the fourth release from Fridge guitarist Kieran Hebden’s electronic-holiday project, Four Tet. The clattery, cut-and-paste jazz-funk is suitably complex-impressive, even-on the rumbling breakbeat swing of “Sun Drums And Soil.” But back when groups of humans were making fusion records in the ’70s, there were at least solos to break the monotony. And when you hold it against 21st-century competition, there’s nothing on Everything Ecstatic the likes of Madlib haven’t already done better. (DOMINO) Dan LeRoy

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