Sometimes it’s possible to take labels like Isle of Jura a little for granted, seemingly endless high quality music, along with top artwork from the super talented Bradley Pinkerton added in for good measure. Guaranteed top drawer stuff. The comps and reissues just continue to emerge from a bottomless well of musical depths, but artist albums tend to be a little more rare. Besides from the Jura Soundsystem records, and maybe the Ronnie Lion album, this is newish territory for IoJ.

Alek Lee is a perfect choice for the label to further dip into that pool. His Antinote album, ‘You!’, from a couple of years ago was a wonky off kilter pop affair, mixing twisted beats through a dub blender to come out with something that was pretty unique and a lot of fun. And his edits speak for themselves, he’s someone with a pleasantly distorted taste. This time out with ‘Cold Feet’, he’s gone fully instrumental without losing any of that ‘off’ sounding approach that marks him out.

‘Cold Feet’s’ title track starts off with some gently arresting guitar strums ahead of a lovely organ line that sits just on the right side of pop funk. ‘Pino Pino’ strays into Balearic psychedelia, a drum and guitar combination that rolls along at just the right chop. Then ‘The Right Thing’ brings some very obese bass sounds into the mix and a more machine drum backing. ‘Was Was Was’ dubs out to some spacious guitar soloing and a cheeky horn accompaniment.

‘Illusions’ verges into fast reggae with a melodic piano line that would bring a smile to any sunkissed lips. Every album should have a fitting finale and ‘Cold Feet Desert’ slots into that category with an easy charm, waves sweep over the backing and that guitar rears its welcome fret to close it all out. While it would be foolish to want Isle of Jura to put any stop on the quality reissue conveyor, they can certainly carry on with new stuff when it’s this good.

Cold Feet by Alek Lee is out on 12 September via Isle of Jura.