Four Tet has released two new albums on Christmas Day, called Parallel and 871. The announcement came as a surprise to fans of the Putney musician, especially considering his latest album release was as recent as last March with his 10th studio record Sixteen Oceans.
The Spring-time album gained Four Tet his highest chart position of his long career, putting the record at #34 in the UK charts, beating out his 5th full-length album which managed to reach #35 at its peak. The new albums have come only 8 months after Sixteen Oceans, without any singles released or fore-announcements, no music videos have been released as of this time though streaming is available on all platforms now.
Four Tet has released a long list of new music in the year 2020, apart from his critically acclaimed Sixteen Oceans he has also been busy releasing many collaborations with a slew of artists throughout the UK and on. The single Road of the Lonely Ones was released with the artist Madlib off his first solo album Sound Ancestors.
Even as recently as early in December, Four Tet collaborated with both Thom Yorke and Burial on the record including the duo tracks His Rope and Her Revolution. This was the second duo record that the three artists coordinated on, the first exclusively physically released nearly 10 years prior.
https://t.co/PMBuFPjdJn — Four Tet (@FourTet) December 25, 2020
Four Tet is known for his mixing abilities, even the latest Madlib album was credited to him for the sound engineering, a skill he brought to his first, second and third albums of 2020. 2021 has yet to announce any live in-person tour-dates as of yet considering safety concerns surrounding the ongoing Covid-10 pandemic health-crisis.
Four Tet has a livestream going on YouTube which has been streaming ongoing since October. The stream is a mix of instrumentals by Four Tet and artwork by Anna Lewis, the purpose of the stream is unknown, however, it gives fans just a little more Tet content this year.
Parallel and 871 are available now for streaming on all platforms, as well as the previously released Sixteen Oceans. His Rope, Her Revoultion and the collaborative Madlib album are also available for streaming and download.
