A decade after a trio of 2009 anthologies—Hardrive, Zip Files Volume One, and Gremlinz—established Terror Danjah as one of grime’s sharpest production talents, Invasion finds him sounding as innovative as ever. In contrast to the often cutting synths of 2012’s The Dark Crawler, this album dips into the softer, more sample-heavy palette of the sound he terms “R&G,” or “rhythm & grime.” The pairing of plaintive looped saxophone and cavernous 808 kicks on opener “TBC” maps out a space somewhere between footwork and trap, while the steel pans of “Wavy” underscore British club music’s debt to the Caribbean; he’s back to his customarily brittle style on “Nightmare,” a minor-key nail-biter full of backward string synths and dissonant stabs reminiscent of the shower scene in Hitchcock’s Psycho. With the exception of Nii-Teiko’s wordless hook on “Scene 1” and a smattering of shouts and yelps, the album is all instrumental, but what’s remarkable is how much mileage Terror Danjah gets out of elements like the growling bass timbre of “Last Days” or the staccato UK funky groove of “Red Card Riddim.” Even at his most minimalist, he knows how to make his sounds sing.