I’ve been a fan of Kieran Hebden (aka Four Tet) and his warm and jazzy folk-tronica for many years now and have thoroughly enjoyed all his releases, but here Four Tet branches out and takes a different direction with his music while keeping check of his signature sounds. The Ringer EP is a little icier in shades of blue and green rather than orange red. It’s a little glitchy but in a much more synthetic way than on previous releases as well. The songs are longer (or just seem that way) and are the most droney thing Hebden has done. The EP’s four tracks “Ringer,” “Ribbons,” “Swimmer,” and “Wing Body Wing” start off with a pulsating and Orb-esque melodic keyboard before breaking into an almost jazzy drum loop. They go into bubbly synths that sound straight out of a coral reef and then fade away in awash of slowly-building beats and sparkling atmospheric keyboards. On Ringer, Hebden incorporates less samples than on some of his previous releases, but shows he is just as adept at culling a techno drone as he is acoustic follk-tronica.
MP3 | Four Tet – Ribbons Ringer EP
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