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Ender: Ender

Ender describe themselves as experimental drone rock - which means their palette is mainly comprised of layered slabs of overdriven guitar. It has to be said that this is a form comprehensively covered by Napier sound sculptors Jakob and Ender do traverse some similar terrain. However the duo of Jonathan Dakers (guitar/bass/keyboards) and Logan Compain (drums) are skilled proponents of the style and weave a satisfying wall of sound that heaves with peaks and gulleys, tension and release. Like Jakob, HDU and Bailterspace, the pair have the capacity not only to construct great caverns of noise but to deftly evoke mood and emotion with sustained tones in harmony and dissonance. The arrangement of pure tone, minus premeditated riffs or the focus of a voice allows a listener to be carried away on its waveforms. The music is corralled into four unnamed parts, perhaps heralding a seasonal life cycle. The artwork depicts a lonely pylon-littered landscape with dark and threatening skies overhead. In fact the dark clouds completely engulf the CD liner notes. The musicians tracked and mixed the CD themselves while mastering was completed by New Yorker Alan Douches.

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