BURIAL VERSUS FOUR TET

Posted on 2009-05-04

Kieran Hebden, aka Four Tet, is all about collaboration, so it’s not a surprise that he’s teamed up with shadowy English dubstep crossover Burial, aka William Bevan. The results, “Moth” and “Wolf Cub,” “Moth” finds Reichian Gamelan giving way to wooden percussion and subtle background pitch/vocal smears, with an echoing spaciousness that remains throughout. “Wolf Cub” digs into a deeper, stutter-stopping, chiming/ringing/thumping club zone. Both are super mellow: A thoroughly enjoyable mind-meld bearing the fingerprints of both makers, but that also manages to lead them someplace new.