Four Tet - New Energy Artist_横田年昭 Toshiaki Yokota & The Beat Generation

Four Tet - New Energy Artist_横田年昭 Toshiaki Yokota & The Beat GenerationFully formed within the endless creative confines of Ableton Live, Four Tet's ninth full length offering, New Energy, follows on from 2015's Morning Evening and features contributions from Tom Baker & Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. Mixing together elements of trip hop, modern electronics and ambient music with signature flair and a great ear for a melody, New Energy neatly pulls together the lighter ends of Beautiful Rewind's house movements and Morning

it brings to light and groups together some hidden gems from an era that without it

Ali Shaheed Muhammad

or muted horns to create a background ambience that works like the soundtrack to a surreal nightmare

The San Francisco

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at others paired right back to the core elements

Evocative material separated by years

After a more than a year of piecemeal recording sessions

Wet Leg was recorded and produced in the main by Speedy Wunderground’s Dan Carey (“Chaise Longue” and “Angelica” were produced by Jon McMullen and Josh Mobaraki respectively)

Keith Jarrett’s “In Your Quiet Place”

Bear seems to be surveying the ways in which we connect with technology

as all the while Barnes lays bare his most gut-wrenching lyrics