Cloudy recollection of this one, to say the least. It's getting silly - James Holden in Spy? Can't remember. Michael Mayer? Not a bean. Broken Social Scene last May? Hammered. Absolutely hammered. It has to stop.
Fortunately, despite the best efforts of an evening drinking whiskey and singing God Save the Queen at Croker, this one wasn't quite so bad. For this was a night too good to be forgotten; a late set from Four Tet to a sold out - and wildly giddy - Andrews Lane on a Saturday night should really do the trick. And it did. Lots. Hebdon performed every track from his Ringer Ep of last year*, together with a rapturously received smattering of his more organic stuff from Rounds and Everything Ecstatic (not sure if any Pause tunes surfaced - I refer you to the asterisk below). The contrast with my last Four Tet experience (at a largely distracted End in London last spring) was stark - he had us utterly gripped throughout. One got the sense that this was an artist at his peak; ten years of experimentalism, of folktronica, jazz fusions and abstract remixes giving way to a evening of joyous celebration and energy. Here's hoping the word spreads.
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Someone got a very annoying video of Ringer that stops just before it gets going on 8 minutes. It's worth watching to see the guy dancing on stage at 7:30
*I think. I was locked.
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The last song of the night was Everything is alright from Pauses...it is unreal...and it was unreal.
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