Four Tet
Rounds

This record was released last May; when I bought it, it was around Christmas, but it was almost spring-like, with the sun shining through the streets, defying all the little lights.
Today it's almost spring and it's snowing, and while I'm thinking that sometimes things happen when you least expect them and the best thing to do is to be there and enjoy them, a TV show starts with a theme song I know... but it's Four Tet! I turn off the TV and go play the CD.

It starts with a heartbeat... (and doesn't everything start this way?)

Then come the guitars, piano, sax, drums, and rubber animals that squeak, but they are all samples poured into a computer, well mixed and surprisingly pulsating like a "slow jam" freshly played and live, warm and comforting.

The beauty of this circular electronic music is that it lets go.
It yields to the simple melodies that would be a bit folk if they didn’t immediately slip into the smoothest of jazz with a light funky touch here and there, only to return to minimal and abstract beats. Repeated sounds that become rhythm.

All kept together by a sonic elastic that doesn't tighten too much, but leaves room for Four Tet alias Kieran Hebden to breathe and stretch to experiment and craft a beautiful record, polished and round, which one grows fond of.

" When life is a loop..."