Four Tet: Morning/Evening | Album Review

Morning/Evening
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Artist: Four Tet
Genre: Electronic
Label: Text

There are only two tracks, albeit lengthy ones, on Kieran Hebden's eighth album as Four Tet, but it's quality, not quantity, that counts. Hebden has grown into his skin as a producer, knocking out great albums (There Is Love In You), working with interesting cats (Omar Souleyman, Jamie xx, Neneh Cherry) and rekindling his fondness for DJing. On Morning/ Evening Hebden hones samples, beats and textures to create gorgeous, spine-tingling, hypnotically moody soundscapes. Morning Side threads a sample from Indian singer Lata Mangeshkar through a glitchy canvas that wobbles and shimmers with aplomb as the track glides with airy elegance. Evening Side is a more broody movement, where the dominant ambient house wash gives way to more ominous tension from the drum rolls. Two tracks, then, for any time between dusk and dawn. fourtet.net