ミニマルでストイック、こんなフォー・テットは初体験！

Four Tet名義ではこれまで4枚のオリジナル･アルバムと2枚のミックスCD、リミックス盤をリリースし、インプロ・ユニット＝“Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid”では3枚のアルバムを発表。そしてKieran Hebdenが所属するバンド＝Fridgeで6枚のアルバムをリリースと、超多作アーティストの彼が、Four Tet名義でミニ･アルバムを発表！全4曲32分に及ぶ今作… ミニ･アルバムと言うには勿体無い程の豪華ボリューム盤で、これまでのキラキラ・エレクトロな世界観を突き詰めつつも新たなる側面を表現してみせた、ミニマル・エレクトロニカの傑作！

タワーレコード （2009/04/08）

The Wire - "With THE RINGER, the diverse elements that have always fed into Hebden's music find an unlikely way of working together....It could end up being one of his key releases." Clash - "Keiran Hebden returns with perhaps his most straightforward dancefloor based epic yet....By turns abrasive and soothing, dissonant and melodic, RINGER is a stunningly original work." Uncut - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[B]est of all might be 'Wing Body Wing', the hypnotic sound of orchestrated raindrops, brushed drums and spikes of distortion." Q - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Invoking the spirit of minimalist composer Steve Reich, Hebden crafts music of fragile beauty from the simplest sonic palette." Paste - "A full-on exploration of techno music, RINGER allows Kieran Hebden to check off yet another style on his musical to-do list. A master architect, he builds his arrangements on simple foundations and then expands elaborately."

Rovi

Trying to predict a future direction for Four Tet after Kieran Hebden's time recording with everyone from Steve Reid to his old trio Fridge shouldn't even have been attempted, but the Ringer EP is still a big surprise. Sounding like it was recorded ten or sometimes 20 years earlier than it actually was, the four-tracker reconciles Hebden's mesmerizing early Four Tet material with the sound of IDM circa the early '90s and, also, the movie soundtrack style of the '80s popularized by Tangerine Dream for Risky Business and John Carpenter for Halloween and Escape from New York. The title track is the best, where Hebden spends ten minutes interweaving a dizzying array of changing parts over a plodding four-four beat. ~ John Bush|

Rovi