Endless Forms
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States | Established. Jan 01, 2014 | SELF
Music
Press
Okhustle’s photographer and music junkie, Emily caught up with an emerging local band, Endless Forms, to see what they were up to. She attended their album release at the Made Workshop and heard everything they have been working on thus far.
Tulsa, Oklahoma band Endless Forms has become recognized for its unique chamber-rock exploration of sonic space, mixing traditional song structure with the liquid textures of ambient alternative music and provoking lyrical continuity. Endless Forms was formed by lead singer Justin Allen, who wrote and recorded the entire debut album Lazarus in his apartment studio. Other Endless Forms members Robert Redmond, Sean Ammons, Donnie Fite, and Will Cook joined the band after hearing the masters and began playing shows together. Their debut album Lazarus was released on October 16th, 2015, and chronicles a period of collapse in the life of lead singer and songwriter Justin Allen, when in 2012 his dealing with crippling anxiety and depression led to the slow disintegration of a relationship on the verge of marriage, followed by leaving the degree program he had very nearly completed. The album is about the slow and indeterminate pace of recovery, and all of the ways in which the embracing of human blindness is perhaps the only way to see.
The album can be listened to on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Spotify.
Be sure to check them out on Facebook, Instagram, & Twitter! - OKHustle
Discography
Lazarus – LP (2015)
Photos
Bio
Music used to be what writer Milan Kundera called a single, red rose blooming on a snowscape of silence: beauty suspended in time and space, to live once and die with the moment until a future time. You had to wait for it. And when it came again it washed over you deeply and softly because you understood you couldn’t collect it, but only be present with it.
The music of Endless Forms aims to settle in the tension of creating in an already crowded world – to create a window through which to engage the world rather than escape from or dilute it. Endless Forms’ forthcoming debut album 'Lazarus' is about this difficult but possible reality of achieving peace and personal wholeness in an unfathomable and unresolving world. It was written largely during a period of personal collapse in the life of frontman and songwriter Justin Allen, when in 2012 his dealing with crippling anxiety and depression led to the slow disintegration of a serious relationship on the verge of marriage, followed by leaving the degree program he had nearly completed. But the album is not about what it means to reside in the space of complete deconstruction; it is about what it means to recreate oneself and find meaning in pain and cosmic loneliness. 'Lazarus' asks the hard-pressed but oft-avoided questions of what peace is on this side of death, when the world is still churning and changing, where God resides in a world so bereft and hungry for truth and connection, and aims to courageously disconnect from the pathological attempts to feel happily in control when we secretly and deeply know our worlds are slipping from our hands, all with a faith that the excruciating honesty will somehow illuminate something beyond the death of it all.
Band Members
Links
