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Everything Ecstatic
Electronic · 2005 · 10 tracks

Everything Ecstatic

A hyperactive, textured collision of organic folk samples and aggressive electronic beats. Kieran Hebden's most urgent, restless, and rhythmically intense work.

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Abrasive departure

Wooden flutes and acoustic strums get caught in a gears-and-pistons grind of heavy, stuttering beats. It feels like watching a digital clock melt over a forest floor. You are pulled through a dense thicket of static and bright, urgent chimes that never quite let you catch your breath.

Everything Ecstatic · vs · Four Tet
Energetic+4.0σ

This record introduces a signature burst of energetic chaos that is rare for the project, trading quiet introspection for a frantic, celebratory explosion of digital grit.

Tracklist · 10 Tracks
01
A Joy
3:06
02
Smile Around the Face
4:34
03
Fuji Check
0:23
04
Sun Drums and Soil
6:21
05
Clouding
1:45
06
And Then Patterns
4:44
07
High Fives
5:08
08
Turtle Turtle Up
2:09
09
Sleep, Eat Food, Have Visions
8:00
10
You Were There With Me
5:53
Moments Worth Waiting For
04Sun Drums and SoilThe rhythm track on 'Sun Drums and Soil' erupts into a chaotic, polyrhythmic crescendo that sounds like a beautiful jazz car crash.
The mastering of the album was completed by engineer Sean Magee at the historic Abbey Road Studios.
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Reviews
Critic Consensus

Critics were generally positive, if not unanimous.

The Village VoiceA-
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SpinB
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Rolling Stone3/ 5 stars
Pitchfork7.4/ 10
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indielondon.co.uk
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The Guardian4/ 5 stars
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Metacritic77/ 100
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AllMusic3.5/ 5 stars
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