Rounds (album)

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Rounds
Rounds cover
Studio album by Four Tet
Released 5 May 2003 (UK)
6 May 2003 (US)
Genre Electronic
Length 45:22
Label Domino Records
WIG126 (UK) / DNO014 (US)
Producer Kieran Hebden
Professional reviews
Four Tet chronology
Paws
(2001)		 Rounds
(2003)		 Hella/Four Tet Split
(2004)

Rounds is the third album by Four Tet. It was released on 5 May 2003 in the United Kingdom; the United States release came the next day. As of April 2008, Rounds is Four Tet's highest-reviewed release on Metacritic, where it is ranked #4 on the list of best albums of 2003.[1][2]

Two singles were released from the album ("She Moves She" and "As Serious as Your Life"), as well as one EP, My Angel Rocks Back and Forth. The latter features remixes of the title track by Isambard Khroustaliov and electronica duo Icarus, two new Four Tet tracks, and a DVD of all of Four Tet's music videos for Pause and Rounds.

A promotional version of the album was issued in March 2003. The only track different from the version on the final release is "Unspoken",[3] which originally featured an alternate piano melody sampled from the Tori Amos song "Winter". Because Amos' record company refused to clear the sample, a new melody was improvised for the official release of Rounds.[4]

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Hands" – 5:40
  2. "She Moves She" – 4:38
  3. "First Thing" – 1:12
  4. "My Angel Rocks Back and Forth" – 5:06
  5. "Spirit Fingers" – 3:21
  6. "Unspoken" – 9:29
  7. "Chia" – 0:31
  8. "As Serious as Your Life" – 4:36
  9. "And They All Look Broken Hearted" – 5:06
  10. "Slow Jam" – 5:16

[edit] References

  1. ^ Four Tet: Rounds (2003). Metacritic. CNET. Retrieved on 2007-07-10.
  2. ^ Best Albums of 2003. Metacritic. CNET. Retrieved on 2007-07-10.
  3. ^ Four Tet: Discog. Retrieved on 2007-07-10.
  4. ^ The Conjurer. The Age. Fairfax Digital. Retrieved on 2007-10-29.

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