Morning/Evening

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Morning/Evening
Studio album by
Released21 June 2015 (2015-06-21)
RecordedAugust 2014 – February 2015
Length40:17
LabelText
ProducerKieran Hebden
Four Tet chronology
Beautiful Rewind
(2013)
Morning/Evening
(2015)
New Energy
(2017)

Morning/Evening is the eighth album by British electronic musician Kieran Hebden, released under his alias

drum programming, electronic sounds and manipulated found sounds
.

Morning/Evening was announced in May 2015, with an expected release date of July 2015. It was made available to stream and download from Hebden's Bandcamp page on 21 June 2015 to celebrate the summer solstice. Music critics praised Hebden for continuing to release challenging and unique electronic music. The physical release of Morning/Evening became Hebden's second highest-charting album, peaking at number 48 in the UK Albums Chart.

Recording and composition

Kieran Hebden, who is of Indian descent,

devotional music from his late grandfather when he was ten years old but had never listened to it.[2] When his maternal grandmother died during the making of his 2013 album Beautiful Rewind,[2] Hebden played some of the records and began experimenting by looping a vocal sample of Indian playback singer Lata Mangeshkar for three days[3] before deciding to base an album around it.[1]

"Morning Side" samples the voice of Indian playback singer Lata Mangeshkar.

Hebden wanted to make a record with a similar structure to Indian music, particularly the raga mode,[2] and decided to divide the album into a "Morning Side" and an "Evening Side" since many ragas relate to certain times of the day.[2] Hebden also drew influences from English electronic music group Autechre and early electronic music, including American electronic composer Morton Subotnick's 1967 composition Silver Apples of the Moon, and wanted the album's production to sound like a low fidelity recording, while maintaining moments of high fidelity.[2]

Morning/Evening contains two tracks of electronic sounds and "skittering"

drones and "sparse" keyboards.[6] It contains a conclusion that features a garage rhythm,[5] with Hebden wanting the end of the album to feature "the most hectic, percussive part" to emphasise an evening's relationship with nightclubs.[2] The song fades out "to implicate that the music went to infinity."[2] Hebden recorded the album between August 2014 and February 2015, using a laptop running the digital audio workstation Ableton Live to control VST synthesizers and manipulate found sounds.[9]

Release

Hebden announced Morning/Evening on 6 May 2015 with a release date of July 2015.

vinyl on 10 July by Hebden's label, Text Records.[12] Morning/Evening entered the UK Albums Chart during the week commencing 23 July 2015 and became Hebden's second highest-charting album, peaking at number 48.[13]

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Consequence of Sound
B[7]
Exclaim!9/10[6]
NME8/10[16]
The Observer[17]
Pitchfork7.7/10.0[4]
PopMatters[5]
Resident Advisor3.7/5[18]
Spin8/10[8]
XLR8R7/10[19]

At

Consequence of Sound said that "Hebden has done what he does best: create an atmosphere so encompassing that you lose sight of wherever you are while you're listening".[7] Spin's Dan Weiss called the album "ambitious" and "beautiful in its own right, if you’re patient."[8]

In his review for PopMatters, Casey Hardmeyer called the album both "classic Four Tet" and "a step in a new direction for the veteran producer". Hardmeyer felt the vocal sample on "Morning Side" was too prominent in the mix, saying that "Side two, 'Evening Side', is where Hebden really shines", and praised Hebden for continuing to release challenging and unique music "in an electronica landscape that's increasingly devoid of it".[5] XLR8R's Chas Reynolds said that while the album's "narrative ambivalence" might not make Morning/Evening Hebden's most "immediate" record, it lent Morning/Evening a "near infinite replay value".[19] AllMusic's Andy Kellman said that the album "isn't among the most substantive Four Tet albums, but it does reward repeated casual listening."[15] Angus Finlayson, reviewing the album for Resident Advisor, called the album "the prettiest Four Tet record in some time" and said that "in its best moments, Morning/Evening is perfectly paced." Finlayson highlighted the "vagueness" of the record's "disparate material" but concluded that "even with these faults [...] Hebden has brought a refreshing addition to his discography."[18]

Track listing

All tracks are written by

Kieran Hebden[20]

No.TitleLength
1."Morning Side"20:24
2."Evening Side"19:53

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.[20]

  • Kieran Hebden
     – music, production

Additional personnel

  • Matt Cooper – design
  • Jason Evans – photography, design

Charts

Chart (2015) Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[21] 94
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[22] 159
Scottish Albums (OCC)[23] 57
UK Albums (OCC)[13] 48
US Top Dance/Electronic Albums (Billboard)[24] 23

References

  1. ^ a b c d Pattison, Louis (11 July 2015). "Four Tet: 'The club is my world now'". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Beta, Andy (16 July 2015). "Four Tet on Ambitious New LP and What It's Like to DJ With Skrillex". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
  3. ^ Lynskey, Dorian (September 2015). "Q Maverick – Kieran Hebden". Q (350). London: 66.
  4. ^
    Pitchfork Media
    . Retrieved 7 July 2015.
  5. ^ a b c d e f Hardmeyer, Casey (10 July 2015). "Four Tet: Morning/Evening". PopMatters. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
  6. ^ a b c d Barnes, Chad (29 June 2015). "Four Tet Morning/Evening". Exclaim!. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
  7. ^
    Consequence of Sound
    . Retrieved 31 July 2015.
  8. ^ a b c d Weiss, Dan (25 June 2015). "Review: Four Tet Lets the Light Win on the Brightly Raga-Tinged 'Morning/Evening'". Spin. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
  9. ^
    Pitchfork Media
    . Retrieved 31 July 2015.
  10. Pitchfork Media
    . Retrieved 27 November 2015.
  11. ^ Garber, David (30 June 2015). "Electric Forest 2015: Surprises From Skrillex and Macy Gray (Yes, Really) Made The Dream World Come Alive". Vice. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  12. ^ Dean Van Nguyen (21 June 2015). "Four Tet streams new album 'Morning/Evening' – listen". NME. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  13. ^ a b "Fourtet | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  14. ^ a b "Reviews for Morning/Evening". Metacritic. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
  15. ^ a b Kellman, Andy. "Morning/Evening – Four Tet". AllMusic. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
  16. ^ a b "NME Reviews – Four Tet – 'Morning/Evening'". NME. 7 July 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  17. ^ a b Empire, Kitty (5 July 2015). "Four Tet: Morning/Evening review – a low-key treat". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 July 2015.
  18. ^ a b Finlayson, Angus (16 July 2015). "RA Reviews: Four Tet – Morning/Evening on Text Records (Album)". Resident Advisor. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
  19. ^ a b Reynolds, Chas (11 July 2015). "Four Tet Morning/Evening". XLR8R. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
  20. ^ a b Morning/Evening (CD booklet). Four Tet. London: Text Records. 2015. TEXT036CD.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  21. ^ "Ultratop.be – Four Tet – Morning / Evening" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
  22. ^ "Ultratop.be – Four Tet – Morning / Evening" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  23. ^ July 2015/40/ "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  24. ^ "Four Tet Chart History (Top Dance/Electronic Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved 15 December 2018.

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