EVERY producer and sonic wizard seems to want their turn upstage, and electronica expert Jon Hopkins is no different.

In fairness, Immunity is the Londoner’s fourth album over more than a decade, but it was only with 2009’s Insides that Hopkins, whose CV includes work with Brian Eno and Coldplay, seemed to be perfecting his own sound.

The basically instrumental Immunity is an intense, imposing piece of forceful dance music, clocking in at exactly an hour with the last two tracks accounting for just over 20 minutes.

Open Eye Signal, an Essential Selection-esque dance anthem, is the clear highlight; flanked by the confident We Disappear, Breathe This Air and Collider, it proves Hopkins has the chops to make his own music hit home.

Immunity does sag – Form By Firelight meanders rather than being slick and seductive, while Abandon Window is akin to how a Sigur Ros song starts but, sadly, not how it finishes – but its ambience, aggression and musical accomplishment show why a previously quiet and carefully paced solo career is now breaking cover.