Tuesday, February 24, 2004

Unexpected connection

Jim O'Rourke I'm Happy, and I'm Singing, and a 1, 2, 3, 4
Four Tet Rounds

Both are warm and pretty, glitch-prone albums, with Four Tet's have the advantage of a beat (i.e. intelligent drawing on hip-hop) and O'Rourke's being more adventurously composed (on laptop, not on paper, of course). I can't remember where I read the expression "computer as music box," but both of these albums (the O'Rourke especially) embody it nicely.