Rounds (2003) Album Review

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Music critics combined give Rounds a score of 3.3808 out of 4

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Stylus Magazine

You may not get to sing along, but this is not ambient music; it is immersive and involving. Read more about Rounds on Stylus Magazine

Stylus Magazine

It seems unfair to refer to Four Tet as a side-project now the moniker has seemingly overtaken Fridge as Kieran Hebdenâs primary musical venture, certainly in the minds of the general music-consuming public and mainstream music press. Read more about Rounds on Stylus Magazine

All Music Guide

For his solo projects,Fridge'sKieran Hebdenis a lo-fi experimentalist who, had he been recording 15 years ago, would've been cranking out songs on a four-track recorder instead of a laptop. Read more about Rounds on All Music Guide

PopMatters

Although Rounds isn't quite the jaw-dropping masterpiece that Manitoba's Up in Flames is, and despite the fact that the album lags on the meandering "And They All Look Broken Hearted", it's still a remarkable record, one that, like the work of Dan Snaith, gives a usually stale musical genre a undeniably human feel. Read more about Rounds on PopMatters

All Music Guide

The record offers something to nearly every audience that could approach it, with a bit of a groove for electronic fans, an obtuse sense of music-making for experimentalists, and a dreamy melodicism sure to endear it to indie-pop fans. Read more about Rounds on All Music Guide

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