Rounds
by Four Tet

Album
Rounds by Four Tet
Year: 2003
Release date: 2003-05-05
Overall rank: 1,545th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 212 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2003 (30th)
Award Top albums of of the 2000s (244th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,545th)

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Four Tet bestography

The best album by Kieran Hebden is Rounds which is ranked number 1545 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,107.

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- This album (1,545th)
Rounds Lower ranked (1,734th) »
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Rounds track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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1.
Hands
Average Rating: 85 (49 votes)Comments: View 0
2.
She Moves She
Average Rating: 84 (45 votes)Comments: View 0
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First Thing
Average Rating: 79 (35 votes)Comments: View 0
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My Angel Rocks Back And Forth
Average Rating: 86 (51 votes)Comments: View 0
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Spirit Fingers
Average Rating: 81 (38 votes)Comments: View 0
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Unspoken
Average Rating: 87 (50 votes)Comments: View 0
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Chia
Average Rating: 74 (32 votes)Comments: View 0
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As Serious As Your Life
Average Rating: 84 (41 votes)Comments: View 0
9.
And They All Look Broken Hearted
Average Rating: 82 (37 votes)Comments: View 0
10.
Slow Jam
Average Rating: 84 (40 votes)Comments: View 0

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Rounds rankings

Rounds rankings summary
Overall rank: 1,545th | 2000s rank: 244th | 2003 rank: 30th  Overall chart history
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 !		08/24/2026 14:49 Skerns  Ratings distribution  5,21280/100
 
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 !		07/26/2026 20:14 DommeDamian  Ratings distribution  7,76748/100
 
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Rounds forum mentions

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From 07/04/2021 21:37 | #271340
Highlights:

- She Moves She
- Unspoken
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From 01/23/2019 03:26 | #230301 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
I love Kieran Ebden's positive-vibed, light-infused down tempo electronica. It makes for a nice contrast to his sometimes collaborator, Burial, who has a darker, broodier downtempo feel. As such they make for a perfect yin-yang album collection to simply chill out to depending on your mood. Rounds, for me, is still the most complete album that he has released. From start to finish you are held within a bubble of sweet ambience of intoxicating melodies.
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From 12/11/2016 04:20 | #179870
beautiful
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From 04/26/2014 02:40 | #110095 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Do you seek emotion? If so, listen to this.
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