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Beautiful Rewind
Studio album by Four Tet
Released	14 October 2013 (2013-10-14)
Genre	Electronica trip hop tech house oldschool jungle UK garage
Length	40:14
Label	Text
Producer	Kieran Hebden
Four Tet chronology
Pink (2012) Beautiful Rewind (2013) Morning/Evening (2015)

Beautiful Rewind is the seventh studio album by electronic musician Four Tet. It was released on 14 October 2013, by his own record label, Text Records. The song "Kool FM" appears in Grand Theft Auto V on the radio station Worldwide FM.

Release

The album was announced on 22 July 2013. Kieran Hebden hinted that the release of the album would be low-key, stating on Twitter that there would be "no pre order, no youtube trailers, no itunes stream, no spotify, no amazon deal, no charts, no bit coin deal, no last minute rick rubin ."

Reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	7.4/10
Metacritic	79/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Fact	3.5/5
Financial Times
The Irish Times
The Observer
Pitchfork	7.4/10
Q
Resident Advisor	4.0/5
Rolling Stone
Spin	8/10

Upon its release, Beautiful Rewind received some critical acclaim. At Metacritic, the album has received a score of 79 out of 100, based on 18 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Killian Fox, writing for The Observer, described the album as "an (almost) unexpected pleasure". Fact magazine's Tom Lea offered the opinion that "Beautiful Rewind feels like Four Tet coming full circle" before commenting that "no matter how grubby it gets, at the heart of it will always be one fact: Four Tet's forte is making Beautiful Music." AllMusic reviewer Andy Kellman stated that "while the album does seem rather patched together with a lack of focus... there's an irrefutable charm to the restlessness." In her review for Consequence of Sound, Paula Mejia was disappointed that "the tracks don't necessarily resonate as did the memorable, emotive singles that won over listeners' hearts to begin with on catalogue highlight Rounds".

Track listing

All tracks are written by Kieran Hebden

Charts

References

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7. ^ "Reviews for Beautiful Rewind by Four Tet". Metacritic. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
8. ^ Kellman, Andy. "Beautiful Rewind – Four Tet". AllMusic. Retrieved 15 November 2013.
9. ^ Lea, Tom (5 October 2013). "Beautiful Rewind". Fact. Archived from the original on 16 October 2013. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
10. Hunter-Tilney, Ludovic (19 October 2013). "Four Tet: Beautiful Rewind". Financial Times. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
11. Carroll, Jim (24 October 2013). "Four Tet: Beautiful Rewind". The Irish Times. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
12. ^ Fox, Killian (13 October 2013). "Four Tet: Beautiful Rewind – review". The Observer. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
13. Gaerig, Andrew (17 October 2013). "Four Tet: Beautiful Rewind". Pitchfork. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
14. "Four Tet: Beautiful Rewind". Q (329): 115. December 2013.
15. Miller, Derek (29 October 2013). "Four Tet – Beautiful Rewind". Resident Advisor. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
16. Battaglia, Andy (18 October 2013). "Beautiful Rewind". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
17. Beta, Andy (17 October 2013). "Four Tet Vividly Imagines Future Dance Floors on 'Beautiful Rewind'". Spin. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
18. Mejia, Paula (21 October 2013). "Album Review: Four Tet – Beautiful Rewind". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
19. "Ultratop.be – Four Tet – Beautiful Rewind" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
20. "Chart Log UK 2013". zobbel.de. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
21. "Official Dance Albums Chart Top 40". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
22. "Four Tet Chart History (Top Dance/Electronic Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
23. "Four Tet Chart History (Heatseekers Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved 15 December 2018.

• 2013 albums
• Four Tet albums
• Text Records albums
• Albums produced by Kieran Hebden