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Alternate/Endings

Lee Bannon

Alternate/Endings

Jungle, drum & bass and dubstep on the debut from the Sacramento producer who contributed to Joey Bada$$'s mixtape Summer Knights

ADM rating[?]

7.5

Label
Ninja Tune
UK Release date
13/01/2014
US Release date
09/12/2013
  1. 8.0 |   Time Out

    This is an accomplished and wildly creative record, packing far more wallop than many producers could hope to muster at such an early stage in their career
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  2. 8.0 |   Fact

    Deviating from his hip-hop background for his debut LP Alternate/Endings, Bannon has produced one of the most intriguing records of the 160bpm resurgence yet
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  3. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Sprawling, cinematic and agenda-setting. Print edition only

  4. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    here’s no doubt Bannon knows his rave and hardcore history, but the freshness with which he approaches this material is both impressive and audacious
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  5. 8.0 |   Q

    A virtuoso riff on UK rave. Print edition only

  6. 8.0 |   Uncut

    Former hip hop producer ushers in the jungle revival. Print edition only

  7. 8.0 |   The FT

    Carefully transplants the relevant ingredients and reassembles them with a connoisseur’s ear for detail
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  8. 7.5 |   Crack

    Despite Alternate/ Endings at times blurring together into an amorphous whole, there are enough ideas on display to speculate that Bannon can go exactly where he wants, and make it his own when he gets there
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  9. 7.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Alternate/Endings is never a relaxing listen; when the breakneck pace drops, it’s only replaced by an unsettling calm, and one that doesn’t last very long
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  10. 7.0 |   Slant Magazine

    Alternate/Endings succeeds in leaving you both exhausted and anxious for more
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  11. 7.0 |   The 405

    There's very little doubt that Lee Bannon is going to become a serious contender in hip-hop and electronic music one way or another
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  12. 6.7 |   Pretty Much Amazing

    Succeeds on its own terms, even if I don’t always want to agree with them
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