Album Review: Lee Bannon - Alternate Endings

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.