Album Review: Lee Bannon - Alternate Endings

31 January 2014 | 2:00 pm | Christopher H James

What Burial did for dubstep, Lee Bannon might just do for drum’n’bass.



Here's an electrifying substitute for an espresso. Lee Bannon, the New Yorker who made his name producing Joey Bada$$, has opened his second album with some proper drum'n'bass artillery. After the initial shelling, the dust settles as spectral electronics infuse the hustling beats with a desolate urban drift. The spirit of these immersive pieces evades easy definition, as the masterfully detailed production and ghostly chords serve to deepen the enigmatic atmosphere that permeates like a civic miasma. What Burial did for dubstep, Lee Bannon might just do for drum'n'bass.