Fourteen years separate The Edge of Everything from Krust’s previous album, 2006’s Hidden Knowledge, but you’d never guess it from the sound of the 2020 LP. From the church organs and intricately chopped breaks of the opener, “Hegel Dialect,” the Bristol native is fully in command of his powers as one of the most inventive minds in drum ’n’ bass. Both as a solo producer and as a member of Roni Size’s Reprazent, Krust pioneered the genre’s rhythmic and textural possibilities throughout the ’90s, and on The Edge of Everything his instincts are as experimental as ever. Where so much contemporary D’n’B goes for maximum power, tracks like “Constructive Ambiguity” and “Negative Returns” are defined by their restraint, drawing out tangled polyrhythms to epic length and refusing to deliver anything as obviously Pavlovian as a drop. The payoffs here are more subtle: Listeners are drawn into hypnotically evolving soundscapes where ambient drones float like haloes above hard-hitting drum programming and splintered syncopations give off an unearthly glow. The result is a drum ’n’ bass full-length that harnesses the progressive ideals of the genre’s classic albums without sounding like a throwback.