Derek Bradley is a poet and composer from East London. “The Equidistant”, the new album by the composer, is a kind of zig-zag between sound and text, the composer gesturing to the universe.

The music is evocative of the cosmos and its eye: the track “We’re All In” is a kind of clockwork of sounds; “In the End” is wordless, like the sound wave of a passing star. “The Equidistant”, the sound of the universe, the composer’s own voice, the text “We’re All In”. It is the sound of a dying universe.

Bradley’s music is partly composed of sound, but also of text – the album begins with “The Equidistant”, a song that is both a kind of meditation on the past, and its own dream, and then spirals around the past and its dream. “We’re All in”, “The Equidistant”, is both a plea for the universe and for the end of the cosmos, its own past and its own end, its own dream and its own past.

“In the End,” begins “The Equidistant”, and it is used, again, as a description of the end of the universe. “The sound of the universe is gone,” he sings, “it’s gone/ it’s gone,” but he’s right: it’s gone.