English composer Jon Hopkins’ music has real duality at the core: half of it is sunrise ambient; half is dancefloor beats. It’s the ambient side to which he leans, here, in collaboration with Icelandic composer Biggi Hilmars. Hopkins deploys tech to transform his voice into woodwind sounds, effectively blurring techniques, and Hilmars brings washes of strings and piano. It’s a cinematic soundtrack accompanying the nature documentary Wilding, which focuses on the rewilding project at the beautiful Knepp Estate in West Sussex.

Many nature documentary soundtracks can be a little on the twee or mawkish side, but the two manage to eschew such clichés. ‘Ground Transformation’ is more typical of Hopkins’ warm, tickly ambient electronics, and this is contrasted neatly by the melancholic shimmer of Erik Satie-like ‘The Dove’ and the darker ‘Mouse’ , where piano is played in little percussive, staccato stabs. The most affecting track by far is ‘The Slow Awakening’, which builds from soft drones and vocalising into a soaring soundscape.

It’s not perfect – ‘Butterflies’ feels a little generic, and the title track is too soporific, but in the main, it’s an inspired team up. Folk musician King Creosote (with whom Hopkins has previously worked on the classic album Diamond Mine) also pops up again on the lovely, lilting ‘New Land (Immunity)’ bringing his soulful vulnerability, which contrasts nicely with the bubbling electronics.

The contrast in styles is mostly coherent: a rich, contemplative fusion of shimmering classical pieces with future-focused tech.