Four Tet expands on the new age meditations of his recent singles with a freshly focused New Energy. Fully formed within the endlessly possible creative confines of Ableton Live, New Energy follows on from 2015's Morning / Evening and features contributions from Tom Baker & Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. - Mixing his usual classic trip-hop leanings with a digitized melodic and at times melancholic edge, New Energy neatly pulls together the lighter ends of Beautiful Rewind's house moves and Morning / Evening's lush atmospherics. This is most perfectly pieced together on the twisted wheel UKG of Scientists, an offering of solace to those waiting for a new collab 12" with Burial to form. Before the sparkly-treated guitar notes that are a recurring theme throughout bubble up to the forefront on the Coil Dark River-esq Thousand & Seventeen, imagine a rainbow of paint running all over the Coil classics oil black surface. - The ambient episodes ring strong also, from the angelic upstart of Tremper to the haunted dialogue of Gentle Soul, a glassy surface capturing the influence of F.U.S.E's Nightdrive cruise is mirrored, showing Hawtin's AI belter a strong new mode of studio extraction. This is topped off nicely with SW9 9SL and LA Trance, each a blend of mnml techno tones. Album Tracks 1. Alap 1 22 2. Thousand and Seventeen 4 12 3. La Trance Programmed By [Additional Synthesiser Programming] - Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith 5 47 4. Tremper 1 29 1. Lush 5 12 2. Scientists 4 59 3. Falls 2 1 12 4. You Are Loved 6 09 1. SW9 9SL 7 56 2. 10 Midi 1 25 3. Memories 3 18 1. Daughter 4 55 2. Gentle Soul 1 12 3. Planet 7 18