Ringer
First released in 2008
Latest from Kieran Hebden is a mini-album that leans toward 4/4 techno, but, as usual, he seems less interested in developing genres than in absorbing their tropes into his own hermetic sound world.
Since being coined in the early '90s, the term "Intelligent Dance Music" has been eschewed by most of the artists whose music it was meant to describe. Four Tet (a.k.a. Kieran Hebden) is to be praised, then, for not just grousing about his beats being called intelligent, but for resolving to bite down and make some…
Trying to predict a future direction for Four Tet after Kieran Hebden's time recording with everyone from Steve Reid to his old trio Fridge shouldn't even have been attempted, but the Ringer EP is still a big surprise.