The Essential… Four Tet

10: FOUR TET & BURIAL
‘MOTH’ / ‘WOLF CUB’
(TEXT, 2009)


‘Moth’

I don’t know if it was ever confirmed that both tracks on this limited 12″ single were collaborations, or whether each simply took a side each, but the accepted view seems to be collaboration. ‘Moth’ is the best of the two tracks, and the one that sounds more like a joint effort: Burial riding the biting point between UK garage’s rhythmic structure and melancholy underbelly while Hebden contextualises with subtle chimes and keys, before Burial’s trademark vocals ring through the dusty mist for the track’s climax. Rarely are track names more appropriate. ‘Wolf Cub’ doesn’t quite reach those depths, but is a glistening piece of Reich-core nonetheless.

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  • Simon

    no African Drug???

  • Egon

    Great stuff in there. The major omission for me is Happiness by Fridge. Sublime album. Sevens and Twelves is good enough – Anglepoised being the stand out track for me. Disagree on the Sun which I think is very weak. Amazing musician though who does not deviate from his vision.

  • nr

    his Late Night Tales mix from a few years back is rather good too, and notable for probably the best cover of Black Sabbath’s “iron man” i’ve heard anyway

  • Tom Lea

    Is it the Cardigans version? cos that’s brilliant.

  • Alphonse K Wimplemier

    His Dining Rooms remix should be considered as essential. Four Tet used the McDonald & Giles break for this before it’s re-appearance on Rounds.

  • http://nickaxel.net nick a

    no everything ecstatic. lol. ignoring the peak of his idm?

  • Beatmonkey

    Everything Ecstatic was hugely overshadowed by the glory of Rounds. And rightly so, it doesn’t hold a candle to it.

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