I’ve spent the better part of the last month listening to the best album of nineties trip-hop I’ve heard from mainland Europe: Mellowdramatic by Freiburg’s A Forest Mighty Black. Its pitch is simple: it does something easy masterfully. Boom-bap inspired beats serve as a backdrop to light electric piano noodling and slow-moving basslines that engulf the album’s tracks.

The story of Portishead’s Dummy usually fits snugly into pop music historians' retelling of nineties electronica. A Bristol-based band obsessed with dub, pads, and hip hop breakbeats releases an idiosyncratic debut album in 1994: it’s the natural progression of UK electronic music after Massive Attack's Blue Lines, establishing Bristol as the global capital of trip hop.