People don’t give Kieran Hebden enough credit for creating much of the space in which electronic music thrives today. I distinctly remember when Rounds came out in 2001 and it being a big deal that it got a review in mainstream magazines like Q. Getting on people’s end of year lists and making them proclaim they had discovered some hidden genre in London that evolved out of trip-hop.
Four Tet to Kieran Hebden is probably one of the many creative outlets he allows himself. I don’t think it’s any of our business what is released under the Four Tet guise. We should just enjoy the fact that one of the most creative minds in electronic music insists on putting out such beautifully decorated soundscapes.
