Too long since the last full-length, and after stints with Steve Reid and Burial, a crate of remixes and a year’s residency at Plastic People, Mr. Hebden returns as Four Tet. WITH VOCALS! But then you’ve probably known that since November…

The title-track unfolds with a peculiar timelessness: a female vocal is cut-up with all the noughties wizadry of Prefuse 73, but ends up sounding just as swirling as Orbital’s 1992 classic ‘Halcyon’. Similarly paradoxical: single ‘Love Cry’ loops a half-bar vocal sample over the thickest of Mylo basslines, and yet both sound as gorily organic as any of Hebden’s early works.

Speaking of which – the allusion to Rounds in the electric guitar of closing track ‘She Just Likes to Fight’ is not for the emotionally fragile.  If you’ve also been listening to Four Tet for the best part of a decade, and not slept enough in the last seven days, the harmonic that pings out at 2:18 will make you cry, too. We waited five years for this. A star for every year.