Alternate/Endings
| Alternate/Endings | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | December 9, 2013 | |||
| Recorded | 2012–2013 | |||
| Genre | Electronic | |||
| Length | 1:06:05 | |||
| Label | Ninja Tune | |||
| Lee Bannon chronology | ||||
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Alternate/Endings is the debut full-length studio album by American record producer Lee Bannon. It was released on December 9, 2013 via Ninja Tune. The album marks Bannon's distancing from hip-hop and towards drum-and-bass and jungle music.
Critical reception
[edit]| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 79/100[1] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Exclaim! | 9/10[2] |
| Financial Times |   [3] |
| Pitchfork | 6.8/10[4] |
| Slant |  [5] |
| The 405 | 7/10[6] |
| The Irish Times | [7] |
| The Line of Best Fit | 7/10[8] |
Alternate/Endings was met with generally favourable reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 79 based on eleven reviews.[1]
Daryl Keating of Exclaim! praised the album, stating: "realistically, Alternate/Endings is not for everyone, but anyone who's intrigued by the dark and unconventional side of things--or thinks that jungle needs a new platform--will devour this album".[2] Chase Woodruff of Slant magazine found the album "succeeds in leaving you both exhausted and anxious for more".[5] Andrew Hannah of The Line of Best Fit wrote: "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".[8] Andrew Gaerig of Pitchfork called it "tempting, smart, and raw enough to make me wish he'd set up camp somewhere more permanent".[4]
Track listing
[edit]| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Resorectah" | 4:14 |
| 2. | "NW/WB" | 6:36 |
| 3. | "Prime/Decent" | 4:39 |
| 4. | "Shoot Out the Stars and Win" | 3:28 |
| 5. | "Bent/Sequence" | 5:26 |
| 6. | "Phoebe Cates" | 4:01 |
| 7. | "216" | 5:41 |
| 8. | "Perfect/Division" | 3:50 |
| 9. | "Value 10" | 4:17 |
| 10. | "Cold/Melt" | 3:58 |
| 11. | "Readly/Available" | 9:30 |
| 12. | "Eternal/Attack" | 6:24 |
| 13. | "Alternate/Endings" | 4:01 |
| Total length: | 1:06:05 | |
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Critic Reviews for Alternate/Endings - Metacritic". Metacritic. Retrieved September 12, 2025.
- 1 2 Keating, Daryl (December 6, 2013). "Lee Bannon │ Alternate / Endings". Exclaim!. Retrieved September 12, 2025.
- ↑ Hunter-Tilney, Ludovic (January 17, 2014). "Lee Bannon: Alternate/Endings". Financial Times. Retrieved September 12, 2025.
- 1 2 Gaerig, Andrew (January 17, 2014). "Lee Bannon: Alternate / Endings". Pitchfork. Retrieved September 12, 2025.
- 1 2 Woodruff, Chase (December 14, 2013). "Review: Lee Bannon, Alternate/Endings". Slant Magazine. Retrieved September 12, 2025.
- ↑ Day, Larry (November 25, 2013). "Lee Bannon - Alternate/Endings | The 405 Reviews". The 405. Archived from the original on November 27, 2013. Retrieved November 27, 2013 – via Wayback Machine.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ↑ Carroll, Jim (January 24, 2014). "Lee Bannon: Alternate/Endings". The Irish Times. Retrieved September 12, 2025.
- 1 2 Hannah, Andrew (December 6, 2013). "Lee Bannon – Alternate/Endings". The Line of Best Fit. Retrieved September 12, 2025.
External links
[edit]- Lee Bannon – Alternate/Endings at Discogs (list of releases)