4T Thieves continues to outdo himself; recombining tethered and wilted soundscapes into blissful ambient-electronic forages.
Surrounding blissful subtleties
4T Thieves continues to outdo himself; recombining tethered and wilted soundscapes into blissful ambient-electronic forages. The opener, “One-Eighty-One,” and “With a Light Steam,” both provide ample synth drones with melodic sensibilities flowing through nostalgic memory fields. These are truly surreal click-scapes surrounding blissful subtleties that 4TT does so well.
Boards of Canada echoes take shape on the rhythmic sputter of “Salt 101” as it crafts a pulsing, ever-growing verdant labyrinth for its listeners to explore similar to the adjoining “People Science and Industry,” and its overarching shuffling downtempo drum strands that come to life. And yet as Futures End progresses, it seems to disintegrate just as quickly. “Lost Tape I” is one such wandering interlude that quickly dissolves with its kaleidoscopic drifting notes as does its sibling “Lost Tape II” depicting far-off plateaus. And yet, not everything is a blurry texture. Tracks like the saccharine bells and minuscule plink-plonk acrobatics of “Toybox Story” bring to mind earlier IDM sound sculptors like Penfold Plum, Infant, and Bernhard Fleischmann—a welcomed and playful highlight.
The deepest crevasses are discovered on Futures End; “Quilted Tent Revolution” and sparkling “Outside the Box” uncover fading tones and blends them with up-tempo beatwork. Ultimately, 4T Thieves dissolves a unique musicality that is simply unmatched in the current electronic landscape. Closing with “Endless Technology,” his signature melange of fuzzy sampled voice elements flutter in the wind alongside gauzy rhythm bursts in dreamlike color pallets allowing Futures End to display the pasts beginning with an uneasy sonic turbulence.
Futures End is available on Rednetic. [Bandcamp]
