Ireland native Jonathon Ng, known professionally as EDEN and previously as The Eden Project, is back with his second full-length project, no future. The album comes just over two years after his major-label debut, vertigo. EDEN’s music is released through his label, MCMXCV, the electronic label Astralwerks, and Universal Music Group. While he is on a major platform, EDEN has a cult-like fanbase that is growing slowly but surely.

no future is EDEN’s fourth project in all, following the previously mentioned vertigo, as well as the EP i think you think too much of me. Along with End Credits, which was released under the name The Eden Project back in 2015. As EDEN has become more popular and gained more support, his music has always been self-produced, self-written, and self-engineered in its entirety. The only features he has had on his music so far were on i think you think too much of me and End Credits, that being gnash and Leah Kelly.

Who Was Involved With This Project?

EDEN, just as his other projects, is credited as the only writer, producer, and engineer on the entire project. While it sounds like female vocals are on the track “2020,” this is just EDEN pitching his vocals, which he has done before on “crash” from vertigo.

What I Like

If you stay on the surface of this album, you might say that no future sounds like anything that EDEN has ever released. Two major differences with this project are that the songwriting is better than ever and that the instrumentals have more effect on the feeling on the songs than ever before. The instrumentals, while some are very simple, give the feeling of having an entire orchestra assisting the vocals at moments. Vocals on the project are very good, but I wouldn’t say that he’s improved enough since 2018 to tell, but sometimes there isn’t room for improvement. I do believe though that the songwriting on this project had more thought, emotion, and creativity put into it than ever before.

What I Don’t

The album sits at nearly an hour in length, which is brave. It wouldn’t have been brave before the streaming era, but now that it’s so hard to keep people’s attention, it’s definitely brave. But just under an hour is about where you want an artist’s album to be at when you like them. Some of the project is filled with movie samples and things like that that don’t really feel like they belong, but I’m sure to EDEN that they’re there for a reason.

Cohesion. There is cohesion as far as the tone of the album, which is similar to the tone on EDEN’s previous projects. On no future, I wouldn’t say that the feeling of each song is as cohesive, but again we’re in the streaming era and it’s possible that’s just a tactic. I’m sure EDEN has a different perspective of why the songs are placed in the order that they are in and why they’re mixed together as I do.

With that being said, I thoroughly enjoy this project. It’s not for everyone, but that’s with anything subjective. Would I listen to this project in every environment? No. But this is a chill project that I would spin on my record player while I did stuff around the house. What I can say for sure is that I’m already excited for another EDEN project, because he’s getting more technical, in all the right ways, with every release.

Listen to the album and let us know your thoughts in the comments below! You can find no future on all platforms now and check out merch and physical for the project on his website.