Four Tet - Morning / Evening [Text]

Tracklist:
1. Morning Side (20.24)
2. Evening Side (19.53) 

Keiran Hebden rarely does things by halves, though it’s still surprising to discover that Morning/Evening, his eighth studio album, consists of two contrasting 20-minute explorations, each inspired by a time of day. Morning is, as you’d expect, warm, bright and evocative, with intoxicating Eastern vocals, dreamy chords and bursts of melodic instrumentation riding a soft, jazz-flecked deep house groove. It is, of course, intensely beautiful. On Evening, Hebden almost entirely dispenses with beats, delivering 15 minutes of picturesque electronic melodies and sunset-friendly atmosphere, before bringing in a jazz-tinged house rhythm for the final five minutes. It, too, is a work of great beauty.