Feels like it’s been a year of slow growth and thoughtful consolidation for dubstep, a year where the sound crept outside the borders of the UK (see Melissa Bradshaw’s live review from the US back in Plan B 24), grew its audience (see sold-out FWDs and a packed-out DMZ) or found ways to package and sell itself - see Soul Jazz’s Box Of Dub series, Skull Disco’s Soundboy Punishment compilation, or the likes of Planet Mu’s 10 Tons Heavy.

Keep your ear to the scene and there was the usual microscopic chatter, a spree of fresh dubs every month. But if you were a more distant observer, eager for the next landmark album, 2007 kept you waiting. Then, this week, it all happened. First of all, Underwater Dancehall, the debut album from Pinch, boss of Bristol label Tectonics. Two discs, one dubs and one featuring the same tracks but with vocals mostly yielded from the city’s reggae/soundsystem culture, it’s a record with a real warmth and vitality, a record as identifiably grounded in Bristol as Blue Lines or Maxinquaye. I’ve only listened to it two or three times, but it may also prove to be that good.

And then, the Burial record. Just completing my second spin of Untrue now, but it’s as spectacular as you’d expect - heavier on the vocals than its predecessor, soul boy vox and diva trills altered and tampered, washed out or chopped up, and those euphoric, washy synths moving in slow, gradual tides. They’re both out at the start of November so if you’re compiling your end of year poll, remember (to quote Grace), it’s not over yet.