This chapter cuts across many styles of downtempo electronic music, but it’s remarkably unified in mood, rain-soaked and restless yet full of blasé cool. Bjork commands an army of beatboxers and arcane vocalists to execute her alien blitzkrieg; Andy Stott turns inward for his vocal study, pulling phonemes apart and teasing them into pure architecture. The techno minimalism of Surgeon is as precise as you’d expect, while Portishead and Massive Attack pair stark hip-hop rhythms with plaintive, soaring melodies.