Four Tet
Pause
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 livesounding instrumental jazz and technologically superprecise laptop dance trickery it sounded nothing like hebden's actual group the postrockers fridge and as it happened very little like anything else in existence where 'dialogue' employed jazz sax and flute in its evocation of a 21stcentury jazz meltdown 'pause' goes even further coiling whispers of harp and zither over layeronlayers of fidgeting rattling percussion his inspirations well like his friend and protege canadian techwizard 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
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