Four Tet — Everything Ecstatic

There isn't a more fitting image than the amazing, technicolour magic carpet that graces the cover of the fourth Four Tet album. This is the ultimate psych-electronic record from mastermind Kieran Hebden, combining spiderweb-light digital tinkering with organic percussion and free-jazz experimentation. First single "Smile Around The Face" is outer space funk, matching a symphony of warped strings and rolling live drums, while the pulsing beauty of "And Then Patterns" incorporates a gently crawling keyboard twinkle over hip-hop beats. Everything's most epic moment, however, is the thrilling "Sleep, Eat Food, Have Visions," which contains the album's biggest hypnotic beats that increasingly grow more tribal and frantic. Pass the ecstacy, please.

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