ABOUT THIS ITEM

So, you've read the music blogs and have driven your flatmates up the wall with "Love Cry" on repeat for the last two months, now here comes the highly anticipated new album from Kieran Hebden; but does it live up to the enormous amount of hype? Luckily, yes, it does! What we have here is someone laying down a palette of sounds and a template of how music will evolve in the 21st century. Rather than simply a set of songs, Hebden showcases new technology and instrumentation in a way that makes you feel like everything before it was simply inferior. Who needs guitars when you have 24-bit polyphonic texture generators? Why not make the vocal part synthesize with the keyboards and create a rhythmic pulse? Hebden is always one step ahead of the game. Four Tet's soundscapes scream of future industry, glistening hi-technology, new ideas and optimism; offering reassurance in a world that could sometimes be feared or mistrusted with the rate of its technological advances. Here, the new is welcomed with a smile and hug, 'it's going to be fine...', you can almost hear Hebden whisper in your ear through a barrage of digital frequencies. And I believe him. From slow ballads, future pop anthems to the more club friendly, forward thinking dance music he is famed for, "There Is Love In You" sets out a whole new vision of making music which in time will be referenced as a classic.

1. Angel Echoes
2. Love Cry
3. Circling
4. Pablo's Heart
5. Sing
6. This Unfolds
7. Reversing
8. Plastic People
9. She Just Likes To Fight