871 (album)

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871
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Studio album by
Released25 December 2020 (2020-12-25)
Length68:07
Label Text
Producer Kieran Hebden
00110100 01010100 chronology
0181
(2020)
871
(2020)
Professional ratings
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Pitchfork (7.1/10.0) [2]

871 is an album by British electronic musician Four Tet, under his alias 00110100 01010100, released on Christmas Day 2020 on his own label Text Records. [3]

Contents

Description

The album's material was produced between August 1995 and January 1997, before the release of the first Four Tet EP in 1998. [4] [2]

Damien Morris wrote in The Observer that "Its music mostly dates back to 1996, and you can hear the teenaged Hebden essaying plangent shoegaze, ambient techno and trip-hop..."

Philip Sherburne wrote for Pitchfork that "There are blasts of overdriven electric guitar, effects-pedal experiments steeped in line noise, and even a folk song played on hard-panned acoustic guitars. [. . .] There are glimmers of the palette that would come to define Four Tet's work, but mostly these pieces show the influence of the decade's mischievously experimental spirit." [2]

Tracklisting

All tracks are written by Kieran Hebden

No.TitleLength
1."0000 871 0001"1:00
2."0000 871 0002"1:29
3."0000 871 0003"1:15
4."0000 871 0004"1:35
5."0000 871 0005"3:30
6."0000 871 0006"3:29
7."0000 871 0007"6:03
8."0000 871 0008"4:03
9."0000 871 0009"0:32
10."0000 871 0010"9:14
11."0000 871 0011"0:18
12."0000 871 0012"4:12
13."0000 871 0013"2:55
14."0000 871 0014"2:38
15."0000 871 0015"4:51
16."0000 871 0016"4:19
17."0000 871 0017"4:36
18."0000 871 0018"5:02
19."0000 871 0019"1:24
20."0000 871 0020"5:24

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References

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