Kieran Hebden, the dean of British dance music, has an academic fascination with texture and sensation. His tunes as Four Tet inspire deep thought as much as impulsive movement, and “Planet,” his latest release, is a perfectly calibrated dance track, rich with luscious instrumentation and luxuriously designed sound. The bright thumps of percussion, laser-beam synth lines, and sensuous loops of vocal are all so well-made and tactile, it almost sounds like Hebden is putting a microphone to a live recording, rather than crafting on a computer. Amid the bodacious drums and mesmerizing synths is a mysterious string instrument plucking away at psychedelic arpeggios, which adds a more spiritual element.

Hebden, as of late, known to veer wildly from genre to genre, playing with jungle on one record and long-form ambient on the next. (His single before “Planet” was a new age-inspired song called “Two Thousand and Seventeen.”) It makes it hard to pin down Hebden when his music by nature is restless. But in songs like “Planet,” the wide scope of his interests comes into focus, and all his studious experimentation pays off when he offers up a gift whose pleasures are ready for the taking.