Quantum Entanglement
The Effects Can Last Forever
[Vakant]
Sometimes two people are just meant to be linked to one another by the universe because they’re meant to create something beautiful together. Fin Greenall (Fink/Sideshow) and Lee Jones (Hefner/MyMy) are the perfect example of this. From their early days attending the same university playing chess to a soundtrack of Aphex Twin and Future Sound of London, to remixing each other’s material, it’s been clear that some form of collaboration needed to happen. 'The Effects Can Last Forever,' released under the alias Quantum Entanglement, is that collaboration finally happening.
Two sides of the same coin, 'The Effects Can Last Forever' explores the same theme of cosmic connection through two versions of the one track, rather than two completely different pieces of music. This is a release best listened to in its entirety from start to finish. 'Heads' starts off deep, chunky and wobbly with spacious dub chords, a jittery TB-303 bassline and a heavily reverbed percussive rhythm which slowly builds to a crescendo before the track bursts into an uplifting, warm, synth-led peak.
'Tails' follows a similar pattern to 'Heads,' but has a distinctly deeper, more stripped-back and more experimental feel. Whacked-out tape delays turn the formerly recognisable TB-303 bassline from Heads into a hypnotic, brain-bending soundscape while the percussive elements are cut and pasted into a rhythmic shuffle. When it’s time for the lead synth to make its appearance, it’s been skewed into a forlorn, spaced-out series of harmonic blips and bloops that feel more menacing than comforting.
'The Effects Can Last Forever' is a rare example of a concept EP done right: two interpretations of a single theme that at once feel linked by a common concept but also distinct enough to warrant existing as separate entities.