In 2018, Nala Sinephro set the music world alight with her debut studio album, Space 1.8. It featured a cast of London's top jazz musicians, including Nubya Garcia, Shirley Tetteh, and Jake Long, but was a complete aesthetic departure from the music so far released by these collaborators.

Her new album, Endlessness, inhabits a similar realm to Space 1.8, deftly balancing the open space and timelessness of ambient music with the ecstatic quality of jazz. All 10 tracks, each titled ‘Continuum’ followed by a number, are threaded together by a continuous yet varying arpeggiated synth pattern, which evokes a feeling of blossoming or unfolding. Sinephro is a master of the build-up; serene moments, awash with harp cadenzas, gradually evolve into ambient chaos, as frenetic, Terry Riley-esque synth patterns spin above low, slow bass notes.

She's also a master of contrasts. Part-way through ‘Continuum 2’, a euphoric string passage emerges from a well-steeped ambient blend of electronics, saxophone, piano and drums, a sudden window of clarity and coherence. Disparate, floating sounds are suddenly pulled into one, given meaning, and sent euphorically upwards.