Music CD - Four Tet: Pause

	Music CD: Pause Artist: Four Tet List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $9.52 Your Save: $ 5.46 ( 36% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Domino
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Tracks: 1. Glue Of The World 2. Twenty Three 3. Harmony One 4. Parks 5. Leila Came Round And We Watched A Video 6. Untangle 7. Everything Is Alright 8. No More Mosquitoes 9. Tangle 10. You Could Ruin My Day 11. Hilarious Movie Of The 90's
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0801390000225 Label: Domino Manufacturer: Domino Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Domino Release Date: 2001-10-02 Studio: Domino
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Not Dissapointed at all. Comment: After buying Pause only then did I decide to look at the reviews of it. Upon reading over some of the reviews I noticed that some people had other selections of artists that they said made this album look like a dissapointment. I thought to myself, "Damn was there something better than this out there"? After listening to the other reviewers selection of artists they thought might have been a better choice I came to the conclusion that me buying Pause was not a mistake at all. Its good music either way you put it. Buy it and when you do, listen to it for the music alone. Enjoy it for what it is and not for how it compares to other music in its genre Customer Rating: Summary: *click click* Comment: Computer keyboard is the main instrument. Its a great background to my day. Customer Rating: Summary: oops! my bad Comment: i seem to have made a mistake. my earlier review of this cd was meant for the everything ecstatic cd which i did not care for. pause on the other hand, i liked very much and easily give four stars. seriously.....really.....honestly...... Customer Rating: Summary: Everyday Pleasures Comment: I'm a newcomer to this genre, so I only feel comfortable expressing a rather limited, personal observation on this wonderful music (I'm reviewing Pause here as well). I originally bought this because I was intrigued by the song selection on Four Tet's Late Night Tales. Ever since the early 70s I've loved what used to be called British Folk/Rock (Fairport Convention, Pentangle, Incredible String Band, Steeleye Span, early Strawbs, etc.) and was fascinated by the idea that a young person nowadays would draw on these bands as influences. Hebden manages to capture the "feel" of much of the music of these great artists much more convincingly than I would have thought. But what really blows me away about this music is precisely what some criticize it for: it's pervasive quality of everyday normalcy. The thing is, a sane everyday "normalcy" is anything but normal nowadays. Somehow, this fragile, delicate music--every time I listen to it-- gives me hope that everything will be all right, and that the smallest things can give infinite pleasure when the big things are eluding you at the moment. It IS, somehow, Spring or Autumn music just as "In the Court of the Crimson King" is Winter music. And it reminds me of just sitting around and being totally blissed out by the things that go on around you everyday. As another reviewer observantly noted, a little like Boards of Canada without the occasional vague, sinister undertone. Hebden also uses acoustic instruments and percussion very skillfully (and very beautifully), often to carry the main theme through his calm, electronic wanderings. This seems to be aimed at a younger audience than me, but too bad, I'm a complete fan. When you're in the mood, nothing else will do. BTW, in my opinion Pause is more unified and the musical ideas somewhat more memorable. Both are highly recommended (4.5 stars). I hope for something more monumental, on the order of FSOL's "Lifeforms," in the near future. Given what seems to be Hebden's character, however, I very much doubt if he'll ever get to "Dead Cities." Customer Rating: Summary: tries to be, falls short Comment: I bought this album purely on the reviews. I had never actually heard the sounds of Four Tet before. After listening to the album about a dozen times, I can hear bits and pieces of Arovane and other IDM labels, but Four Tet fails to develop any of these sounds to any meaningful capacity. I wouldn't buy this album again, now that I've heard it. Of course, YMMV. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Kieran Hebden is, it has to be said, something of a genius. The groundwork for Pause was laid when Dialogue--his debut solo album under the guise of Four Tet--landed in 1999, an album that redrew the parameters of inventive dance music. A peculiar mix of live-sounding instrumental jazz and technologically super-precise laptop dance trickery, it sounded nothing like Hebden's actual group--the post-rockers Fridge--and, as it happened, very little like anything else in existence. Where Dialogue employed jazz sax and flute in its evocation of a 21st-century jazz meltdown, Pause goes even further, coiling whispers of harp and zither over layer-on-layers of fidgeting, rattling percussion. His inspirations? Well, like his friend and protégé:, Canadian tech-wizard Manitoba (whose Start Breaking My Heart is easily the equal of Pause), Hebden collects sounds and melodies from a dizzying array of places--ancient British folk music, the rattle of typewriter keys, the gurgle of running water, even a field recording of a children's playground. Genius? There really is no other word for it. --Louis Pattison