Bleep

Kieran Hebden has had so many successes in the past decade or so that it’s easy to forget he began making music as Four Tet way back in the 90s. Dialogue, the project’s 1999 debut LP originally released via Trevor Jackson's Output Recordings, is given new focus now thanks to a reissue on Hebden’s Text imprint. Heard now, this fascinating record almost sounds like you are hearing Hebden discover a sonic aesthetic in real time - the organic beat tracks, downtempo grooves, spiritualised aesthetic and latent jazz influences which have borne much fruit for him down the years can all be discerned here.