In the five years since Four Tet's last full-length new release – the dense, impassioned Everything Ecstatic – Kieran Hebden has released no less than four full-length collaborations with the veteran American free-jazz drummer Steve Reid and a 12-inch vinyl hook-up with old schoolmate Burial, as well as collaborating with David Arnold on the song accompanying the end credits of Quantum of Solace. But however extensive his extra-curricular activities as remixer, DJ, producer and all-round catalyst about town become, the albums Hebden makes as Four Tet always manage to establish and sustain their own coherent musical identities. (Just listen to how complete and satisfying 2001's Pause still sounds if you doubt this.) And the unmistakably heartfelt and unapologetically uplifting There is Love in You is no exception.

With this album's nine tracks varying in length from just 12 seconds (Pablo's Heart – presumably a memorial to the dog with the David Mitchell voiceover in the anti-drug advert) to a full nine minutes (the exultant first single Love Cry), you would think that a measure of unevenness would be inevitable. But from the brazenly euphoric opening of Angel Eyes, through the two-step gamelan of Sing, to the modestly exultant finale of She Just Likes to Fight, Hebden has mastered the art of the smooth musical and emotional gear change.

The result is a fifth Four Tet album which has the power to delight someone who has never listened to a Kraftwerk record all the way through, just as much as those who know their Walter from their Wendy Carlos. And one which doesn't so much hark back nostalgically to the early/mid-90s heyday of Orbital and Underworld, as recapture the momentum of that illustrious period in British dance music history, and see how far it can still take us almost 20 years on.