Four Tet is one of the more well known artists within the realm of folktronica, a mixture of folk music and electronic downtempo. Pause opens with a great song in "Glue Of The World", but things on this record never quite get back to the greatness of the opener. The unfortunate thing about this is that there isn't a whole lot going on at all here. It sounds nice, but it's almost too sparse. The opener, "Parks", "Untangle", and "Everything Is Alright" have just the right amount of instrumental work to keep the music from collapsing on account of being too thin. Sometimes a perfectly good track like "No More Mosquitoes" are bogged down by irritating samples, and other times a track that shows potential, like "You Could Ruin My Day", is stretched out beyond its welcome. While all of this is unfortunate, when it is good, it's really good, and all of these issues are things that can be weeded out or refined respectively. The idea that that can happen still has me pretty interested in Four Tet, despite this lukewarm offering.
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