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Before Endless was begrudgingly pressed to vinyl or uploaded to streaming services as a contractual obligation, it lived on hard drives. Buried in folders named "untitled" or "staircase_rip." These weren't pristine 320kbps files handed down by a label. They were artifacts—recordings of a recording, complete with the ghostly hiss of a browser tab left open too long. The whir of a fan in the background of someone's screen capture. A dropout where the stream buffered for three seconds. These imperfections became part of the album's DNA.
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