New Energy, Four Tet, LP
Four Tet expands on the new age meditations of his recent singles with a freshly focused New Energy. Fully formed within the endlessly possible creative confines of Ableton Live, New Energy follows on from 2015's Morning / Evening and features contributions from Tom Baker & Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. - Mixing his usual classic trip-hop leanings with a digitized melodic and at times melancholic edge, New Energy neatly pulls together the lighter ends of Beautiful Rewind's house moves and Morning / Evening's lush atmospherics. This is most perfectly pieced together on the twisted wheel UKG of Scientists, an offering of solace to those waiting for a new collab 12" with Burial to form. Before the sparkly-treated guitar notes that are a recurring theme throughout bubble up to the forefront on the Coil Dark River-esq Thousand & Seventeen, imagine a rainbow of paint running all over the Coil classics oil black surface. - The ambient episodes ring strong also, from the angelic upstart of Tremper to the haunted dialogue of Gentle Soul, a glassy surface capturing the influence of F.U.S.E's Nightdrive cruise is mirrored, showing Hawtin's AI belter a strong new mode of studio extraction. This is topped off nicely with SW9 9SL and LA Trance, each a blend of mnml techno tones.
- Disc 1, Track: 1 - Alap 1:22
- Disc 1, Track: 2 - Thousand and Seventeen 4:12
- Disc 1, Track: 3 - La Trance Programmed By [Additional Synthesiser Programming] - Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith 5:47
- Disc 1, Track: 4 - Tremper 1:29
- Disc 2, Track: 1 - Lush 5:12
- Disc 2, Track: 2 - Scientists 4:59
- Disc 2, Track: 3 - Falls 2 1:12
- Disc 2, Track: 4 - You Are Loved 6:09
- Disc 3, Track: 1 - SW9 9SL 7:56
- Disc 3, Track: 2 - 10 Midi 1:25
- Disc 3, Track: 3 - Memories 3:18
- Disc 4, Track: 1 - Daughter 4:55
- Disc 4, Track: 2 - Gentle Soul 1:12
- Disc 4, Track: 3 - Planet 7:18