And yes, even I can’t free myself of this current affection for Japanese culture and – cliché alert – my longing for anything analogue: photography, cinemas that show film, vintage books, vinyl records. 

 

Nevertheless, this mainstream nostalgia brings, in my eyes, a rediscovered appreciation for consuming creativity, art and especially music – that so often gets pushed into sole background noise. ‘Til The End’ continues on that note. As a conceptual cassette tape it explores the act of deep listening and the gravity of an album's last song (often followed by contemplative silence, sitting with the just heard). The design takes visual notes from music theory and particularly the final bar line, a musical marker that indicates the end of a piece of music.