Jon Hopkins - Singularity

Versatile collaborator follows up Immunity with ambitious psychedelic epic.

- Stephen Dalton

ACHIEVING a kind of stealth stardom over the past decade, Jon Hopkins has amassed a stellar portfolio of projects without ever quite edging into the pop mainstream. This classically trained composer from the south London suburbs released his breakthrough fourth album, Immunity, in 2013, a sumptuous blend of analogue techno belters and lush electro-acoustic audioscapes that earned rapturous reviews and a Mercury nomination.

But his real big break came years before, as a session player barely into his twenties, when Hopkins first caught the ear of Brian Eno. This led to co-production credits on three coldplay albums, film scores and multiple joint ventures with Eno. he has since remixed and collaborated with a prestige gallery of artists including King creosote, Four Tet and David Lynch.