Four Tet: Beautiful Rewind – review

It popped up last week with little fanfare, heralded by a few gnomic communiques from the artist on Twitter, but Kieran Hebden's seventh album as Four Tet could have withstood waves of hype. Hebden has exhibited a growing fascination with house music in recent years; here, the Londoner harks back to early-90s rave culture, but without forfeiting his up-to-date sensibilities or typically broad range of references. Opener Gong plunges us straight into a clamour of shifting gamelan beats, dreamy garage vocals and pirate radio interference, which recurs throughout. Tracks such as Our Navigation manage to sound epic in less than four minutes. An (almost) unexpected pleasure.