Four Tet releases new album of ‘Randoms’

Are surprises even surprising anymore? Four Tet’s sure hoping so - he’s just uploaded a new album (sort of) to his Bandcamp.

Entitled ‘Randoms’, it’s less a brand new release and more a collection of leftovers, or bits and bobs, compiled from other standalone releases. “Here is sort of a new album for you” he stated on his Facebook, in typically nonchalant form.

“Over the years there have been some pieces of music that I have made specially for compilation projects or have ended being released only as part of a compilation album,” he explains in a lengthier post on Bandcamp. “As time passes I look back at this music and find the context it was originally put in often feels a bit random now. So I have put together this new album called ‘Randoms’ that brings together this music in a different way. The oldest track here is ‘Field’ from 1996, the first Four Tet track ever released on Leaf Records Invisible Soundtracks compilation. The most recent is ‘Gillie Amma I Love You’ which was made for a charity project called BOATS in 2013. All the tracks here have been released before and I am sure some internet searching will give you the full details if you are interested. Thank you to everyone who originally commissioned and released this music. The artwork for this was made by Jason Evans.”

Listen to ‘Randoms’ below (and download it for free if ya fancy).