Like Lemon Jelly, Hint's focus is on melody and atmosphere, but while the former weaves grand-scale sound collages of emotion, Hint's work is electronic minimal lo-fi.
The softly spoken 'Words To That Effect' and 'Count Your Blessings', for example, loop upright piano refrains over loose hip hop break beats.
Essentially it's contemporary downbeat, but it equally sounds like it could have been recorded by a piano and drum duo in a boozy recording studio 40 years ago.
Hint's style is to fix on a melodic piano refrain and loop it into a mesmerising five-minute track.
As such it's deeply atmospheric, even if the musical arrangements are unfussy.
This can also mean an apparent lack of texture, which over the course of an album can begin to wear thin.
But 'Portakabin Fever' is an LP of subtle variation, so when instruments other than piano take over the lead, such as the trumpet on 'Re:percussions' and the guitar on 'Quite Spectacular', they herald slow, barely perceptible changes rather than major or sudden mood shifts.
As such it's an album that needs time, space and a slow pace.
Definitely one for the heads on the beach in the midsummer heat, rather than anything as mobile, or gloomy, as a Portakabin.
