Ideas of Reference: Ten Years of Four Tet, Rounds
BY PETER LILLIS Ten years ago, Four Tet released Rounds, his third full-length, and his most focused work. Four Tet—UK’s Keiran Hebden—composed an affirming masterwork of mood, rhythm and repetition using only disparate, seemingly unrelated samples, culled from just about anywhere you can imagine, and beyond. Throughout Rounds, Hebden carefully stacks loose, manipulated jazz rhythms...
