Endgame - Abyss

Surrender, the debut album from Precious Metals boss and Bala Club co-founder Endgame, is a deeply personal affair. Not only is it the first project on which the producer’s vocals are featured, front and centre, but themes of loss, trauma and finding meaning in despair make for a collection of tracks that flicker from beauty to brutality. “I just wanna exist,” breathes a demonic voice in the opening seconds of one of the album’s centrepieces, ‘Abyss’, an industrial dancehall crush injected with freezing cold melancholy pop lyricism. For the suitably nightmarish visual Berlin-based duo Declino plunge Endgame into the ruins of an abandoned nightclub in the bowels of a possessed, Event Horizon-esque spaceship, haunted by what they describe as “Quake II RTX dead marine ghosts”. It’s the perfect place for Endgame to lean in to his cyber-goth proclivities, as he sweetly sings: “ghost in the shell / come let’s move we’re in the depths of hell.” As his shadowy avatar glitches in and out of existence, dark chai