Black Swan - From the End of Time

1. Overture 03:16
2. Back To Dust 03:25
3. Desolation Rising 05:03
4. Pseudotruth 01:47
5. New Gods 05:04
6. Endless Infinite 03:59
7. In Ruins 01:10
8. Wings of Oblivion 04:22
9. A Broken Hope 04:03
10. Virtue Screen 05:11
11. Undone 02:06
12. Nightlands 02:31
13. Lost Futures 04:49

Across the entirety of From the End of Time, the new album by Black Swan, an eerily desolate wind forms the base layer for swells of disembodied choirs, haunting piano, mangled tapes, and scores of other unplaceable, vividly textured sounds. According to the artist, its environment “is meant to evoke the aftermath of a collapsed society,” but does so while pulling every possible vestige of beauty from the ruins, with the reverent melancholy of a classical requiem.
Like previous album Ghost (2024), there is a distinct narrative arc to this hour-long experience, but its wayposts appear unhurriedly, as mesmerizing stretches of rippling hum give way to the sudden, plaintive quivers of old cassettes, or the rumble of industrial growls far in the distance. In contrast to that album and its purgatory aura, though, From the End of Time has a slowly beating heart, giving the vague sense of an indifferent sun that still shines, albeit through a deep, crimson haze.