Leftfield electronic producer Kieran Hebden returns this year with his true follow-up to breakout record “Rounds” with “There is Love in You”, the first great album of 2010.
The abstract organic melodies meshed with beats, noise, and weird samples that made “Rounds” so compelling have returned in full flourish. I kinda lost interest with Hebden after “Rounds”, but he returned bright and glowing on my radar last year with his fabulous collabaration with Burial (their track “Moth” being my favourite single of 2009), and so I felt it was time to give him another try. I’m glad I did because as soon as “There is Love in You” begins with the beautiful stuttering female vocals on “Angel Echoes” I was immediately pulled in. What a great opener, and it just gets better from there. The driving two-step beat of the nine-minute “Love Cry”, will have you up and shaking booty in your living room, as the track builds to a fractured 4/4 tempo and female vocals purr the song’s title over and over. It’s hypnotic and beautifully produced and will no doubt be subject to many a remix. A definite hitter of a track.
The album fluctuates from beat-oriented tracks like “Sing” and the awesome “Plastic People” to more esoteric compositions like “This Unfolds” and “Circling”, which build on loops of sound and guitar, and could end up sounding jarring in the hands of one less skilled in his craft. Closing track “She Just Likes To Fight” is the album’s most accessible, an almost poppy, guitar-based song reminiscent of The Sea and Cake that ends the album quite nicely.
Kieran Hebden has released one hell of a satisfying recording, and he’s set an excellent standard for electronic music in 2010.
Bring it. Love it.
Check out a live version of “Angel Echoes” from a session done with the BBC’s Radio One…
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INAUDIBLE 
January 28, 2010 at 09:08 |
I am hopeless addicted to this album right now! It’s spectacular.
January 30, 2010 at 04:02 |
funny – i just wrote about this album tonight. stellar.
-MR
January 30, 2010 at 04:02 |
even linked the same BBC session as you.. 😛
-MR
January 18, 2013 at 16:28 |
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