Everyone talks about the beginning. I want to talk about the ending.
On the final main section of F#A#∞ – “String Loop Manufactured in a Downpour” – the gradual chaos of the rest of the album fades as a looping guitar recording plays under a sample from Godspell, repeating “Where are you going?” without any form of answer. It’s a moment that conjures up a bevy of conflicting emotions: uncertainty, longing, perpetual questioning, but also perhaps hopefulness, somberness, and anxiety. On the original vinyl pressing of the album, this moment was the de facto endpoint, the titular infinity point that creates an unbreaking worry that stretches on until the listener inevitably breaks it through their own will. On the Kranky CD version, however, the ambient sample that follows this ultimately fades out. We hit an end. We find closure. We find out where it is we are going.
Odd Blue Fruit 