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Four Tet's 10th album, Sixteen Oceans, begins on the dancefloor, travels to the woods, and ends becalmed, invoking, and bestowing peace and tranquility.
10mo
73
With such lovely environmental textures, Sixteen Oceans makes it easy to imagine how warm a fully ambient album from Four Tet might be.
10mo
70
A little bit of a diversion from past Four Tet releases, Sixteen Oceans feels like Hebden is taking a moment to stop and reflect on his family, his environment, music culture, and everything else that made him who he is.
10mo
70
Sixteen Oceans is a sign of Hebden settling into his well-trodden niche.
10mo
70
A bit long it may be, but his 10th studio album packs a punch while light on its feet.
6mo
69
The view’s lovely, but for the moment, it feels like Hebden is sailing in circles.
10mo
60
There is more of interest on Sixteen Oceans than on 2017’s New Energy, and there is certainly nothing here that’s outright bad, but Four Tet is still stuck in something of an artistic rut.
10mo
40
Four Tet's increasingly ambient direction continues to dampen his appeal on Sixteen Oceans.
9mo
Out of the handful of artists that came out of the late 90s and early 2000s house/IDM scene, Four Tet has proved to be one of the longest-lasting and most resiliently original of the bunch. That scene eventually gave way to the not-so-original and mainstream EDM wave that still regularly comes in with the tide. However Four Tet/Kieran Hebden over two-decades has proven himself time and time again with, for example, the artsy and collage-like beats that made up "Rounds", and some of ... read more
He really does explore new territory with every album, which is risky and really putting himself out there for his listeners that keeps his work so fresh. Not at all a disappointing follow-up to the rejuvenated sounding, excellent New Energy.
Just when you though that Four Tet was going into a paradise full of ambient masterpieces, he proves that this shift of sound is something that he still needs to master by miles.
I wouldn't say Four Tet or Kieran Hebden, whatever way you wanna call him, is a producer that doesn't take any risk, he seems to always experiment with pretty weird landscapes, but what makes him stand out it's his ability to blend this samples so well that you end up dancing, is that kind of artist that doesn't need ... read more
I wouldn't say Four Tet or Kieran Hebden, whatever way you wanna call him, is a producer that doesn't take any risk, he seems to always experiment with pretty weird landscapes, but what makes him stand out it's his ability to blend this samples so well that you end up dancing, is that kind of artist that doesn't need ... read more
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- Romantics
- Love Salad
- Insect Near Piha Beach
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8mo
Soooo long yet soooo boring - 54 minutes felt like 3 hours. Could only listen to it once.
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Added on: January 21, 2020