New Energy

Kieran Hebden’s restlessly inventive, genre-splicing music is often as unpredictable as it is hypnotic. That holds firmly on his ninth album as Four Tet, where harp-mottled openers “Alap” and “Two Thousand and Seventeen” suggest the supple, folk-inflected electronic of 2003’s <i>Rounds</i> but soon give way to singular experiments in ambient techno (“LA Trance”), head-nodding deep house (“SW9 9SL”) and abstract neoclassical (“10 Midi”). As ever, Hebden builds his music with precision, warmth and a rare gift for consuming melodies.