Slow Hours, a jaw-dropping cooperative of incredibly talented French producers, stunned the scene last year with their remixes of songs like What So Not & Ganz’s Lone, as well as Petit Biscuit’s Sunset Lover. The mega group, consisting of Lain, Kultur, Astre, Khamsin, Kidswaste, and Rusty Hook, seemed to vanish after those releases, likely to focus on their other projects and their respective solo careers. Today, the boys are back with their debut original, Endless. You might think there’s too many cooks in the kitchen when it comes to such a massive hoard of gifted electronic visionaries, but these dashing artists must see eye-to-eye when it comes to treating us to profound sonic journeys. Endless could very well be endless and we wouldn’t complain. It winds and turns, flows and breaks, dazzling us with vivacious whizzing future beats, taking our breaths away with glorious string-laden ascents, and pleasing us with gratifying trap drops. Endless even closes out with an extended piano section that rivals the vivid elegance of a Max Richter or Ludovico Einaudi composition.
The group explains: "We started working on this song almost two years ago, just before our remixes for What So Not and Petit Biscuit came out. When they released, we didn’t know what to expect. We were humbled by all of the support straight away and knew we wanted to write originals that are deeply meaningful to us. It has taken longer than we first thought, and we’ve often found ourselves lost in a never-ending circle. We saw our friendship move towards a dark place as a result of working together on the originals - we were arguing and everybody was stressed out. For a lot of this past summer, we were divided amongst ourselves and unsure if there would ever be any finished music to show. In August, we all went to a house far in the south of France - we were able to bring our friendship back to where it used to be, and ‘Endless’ was finally born.” Stream/purchase Endless, here.
