Stream the album and buy it, here: https://silentpendulumrecords.bandcamp.com/album/living-without
From Denver, Colorado, Endless, Nameless deals in progressive songcraft and soul-baring sincerity – a mix of sculpted discordance and the rawest emotions, occupying a space where post-hardcore, grindcore, and prog intersect. On Living Without, the follow-up to 2018's debut EP, Counterparts, the band spins a web of dizzying drums and knotty guitars, with vocalist Elle Reynolds pairing pensive melodies and primal screams that rip the ears like a swooping eagle.
The playful euphoria of the music is contrasted by the gravity of Reynolds' lyrics. "I cover a mix of personal and political topics on the album," they reveal. "Being a trans person, it feels like my personal identity is violently and forcibly made political, so a lot of the album touches on that and intentionally blends those two categories."
More info: https://thechainworld.blogspot.com/2022/12/endless-nameless-living-without.html
“If you’ve had your eye on the progressive hardcore underground at all this year, you’ve probably seen Endless, Nameless come up a few times now, and if you haven’t you are certainly about to. The Colorado quartet’s emotive, crushingly detailed layers of sound submerge the listeners in waves of math rock, prog, alternative, and more, glueing it all together with Elle Reynolds’ uniquely captivating vocals.”
–Fecking Bahamas
"As you'd probably expect from a band named after one of the noisiest Nirvana songs, you can hear the non-commercial side of grunge coming through in their music, but they've also got a discordant, proggy post-hardcore side that aligns them with labelmates like The Number Twelve Looks Like You."
–BrooklynVegan
"Endless, Nameless exist as an act of resistance. Their debut full-length Living Without is an externalization of heavy personal themes, with vocalist Elle Reynolds’ belted lyrics matching the furious, lurching mathcore of the band."
–Flood
“There's a particular space between math-rock, mathcore, and skramz that I just happen to adore… A unique blend of aggression, emotional impact, and technical complexity… We can cite bands like Circle Takes the Square, The Fall of Troy or, most pertinently in this case (to my ears at least), Chicago's wonderful, blog darlings, Snooze… Happily, I've found another in the form of Endless, Nameless.”
–Heavy Blog Is Heavy
"Their math rock side is energetic and flashy without losing the greater emotional punch. That punch is further provided by some post-hardcore proclivities with ethereal singing and shattered screams alike. Those screams also open up some profoundly wild black metalish moments where things go off the rails ever so slightly for the optimal catharsis of blast beats and poison-dipped guitars... I don’t get the sense that Endless, Nameless set out to be different for different’s sake... It all feels like this is where their hearts lie, along precipices of expression where instead of falling off the edge with the next step, they simply bend physics to walk down along the sheer cliff wall."
–Everything Is Noise
"Somewhere between out-and-out lunacy, meticulous prog, and ephemeral springs of pop... Living Without, to put it simply, is an enthralling, often disturbing listen."
–Distorted Sound
"From mathcore to prog to black metal, all within the same song. The group won’t be held to any particular songwriting standards, which gives this album a fluid sense of excitement."
–Heavy Music HQ
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