Back in stock. Kieran Hebden is, it has to be said, something of a genius. The groundwork for Pause was laid when 'Dialogue' - his debut solo album under the guise of Four Tet - landed in 1999, an album that redrew the parameters of inventive dance music.

A peculiar mix of live-sounding instrumental jazz and technologically super-precise laptop dance trickery, it sounded nothing like Hebden's actual group - the post-rockers Fridge - and, as it happened, very little like anything else in existence.

Where 'Dialogue' employed jazz sax and flute in its evocation of a 21st-century jazz meltdown, Pause goes even further, coiling whispers of harp and zither over layer-on-layers of fidgeting, rattling percussion. His inspirations? Well, like his friend and protege, Canadian tech-wizard Manitoba (whose 'Start Breaking My Heart' is easily the equal of Pause), Hebden collects sounds and melodies from a dizzying array of places - ancient British folk music, the rattle of typewriter keys, the gurgle of running water, even a field recording of a children's playground.

Genius? There really is no other word for it.