Four Tet announces new album ‘Three’
Kieran Hebden, better known by his alias Four Tet, has finally unveiled his highly-anticipated new album, Three, slated for release on March 15th via his own label, Text.
The announcement comes with the release of a new track titled ‘Daydream Repeat’, which offers a glimpse of what’s in store. The announcement arrives with a full tracklist, which includes previously released singles ‘Loved’ and ‘Three Drums’.
Three marks Hebden’s first full-length album since the release of Parallel and the archival LP “871” on Christmas Day in 2020.
During the interim, Hebden collaborated with William Tyler and joined Skrillex and Fred Again for a series of highly successful stage shows as a DJ supergroup. He also went to court for a dispute with former label Domino.
In November 2021, Hebden revealed that Domino had removed three of his four albums released with them (Pause, Rounds and Everything Ecstatic) from streaming sites in a bid to hamper a legal case that he launched in August 2021 concerning historic downloads/streaming royalty rates.
In the 2022 lawsuit, Hebden claimed that the label was in breach of contract over its 18% royalty rate, which Domino applied to record sales, and that a “reasonable” rate of 50% should have been given to downloads/streams.
Hebden succeeded in the suit and released a statement in June 2022. He wrote on Twitter/X: “I have a bodacious update on my case with Domino Record Co. They have recognised my original claim that I should be paid a 50% royalty on streaming and downloads and that they should be treated as a license rather than the same as a CD or vinyl sale.”
He continued, “It has been a difficult and stressful experience to work my way through this court case, and I’m so glad we got this positive result, but I feel hugely relieved that the process is over.”
“Hopefully, I’ve opened up a constructive dialogue and maybe prompted others to push for a fairer deal on historical contracts written at a time when the music industry operated entirely differently,” Hebden concluded.
Listen to ‘Daydream Repeat’ below.
Three tracklist:
- ‘Loved’
- ‘Gliding Through Everything’
- ‘Storm Crystals’
- ‘Daydream Repeat’
- ‘Skater’
- ’31 Bloom’
- ‘So Blue’
- ‘Three Drums’
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