![]() ![]() It’s just that these tracks have the tendency to dissolve into cut-up voices, or pitch shifts, or electronic bleeps. There are clearly songs here, as proved by the swooning synth lines on Commes Des Garçons, or the reggae-tinged Slide On Me, staged over a skittering rhythm and acoustic guitar. It must have thrilled the execs at Apple Music.Įndless feels like an artistic statement before a pop album, even if it’s ultimately an impressive merging of the twoīut the idea that this is a singularly avant-garde statement would be wide of the mark. ![]() Strangest of all is the final track, Higgs, which seems to be a spoken-word advert for a Samsung Galaxy phone, read aloud by German artist Wolfgang Tillmans over pulsing electronica. Song structures are often free-form, especially through the second half of the record, where the point at which one song ends and another begins is difficult to keep track of. There are computerised voices (arty curtain-raiser Device Control), hazy electronic shimmers (In Here Somewhere) and the odd snippet of conversation littered across Endless, the latter providing a pleasingly lo-fi counterbalance to what is overall a rather futuristic and lush aesthetic (the London Contemporary Orchestra provide a variety of sumptuous strings). Because Endless isn’t always an easy listen. ![]()
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