Escape

By the time they released 2014 debut, <i>Sirens</i>, Gorgon City had joined Disclosure, Duke Dumont and Rudimental at the vanguard of a chart-scaling renaissance for UK dance music. Since then, though, the London duo’s DJ sets and radio shows have been reminders that their roots and hearts remain in the underground. <i>Escape</i> seamlessly consolidates the two worlds, weaving anthemic pop hooks into tracks that take ’90s house as a jump-off point to explore grime (“Hear That”) and dancehall (“One Last Song”) before closing with a delicate, heavy-lidded blend of bleeps and breakbeats (“Night Drive”). Their cast of vocalists is equally varied and adventurous, stretching from a founding father of grime, D Double E, to rising UK R&B star Kamille.