In facing mortality, Smith has created something beautiful, bleak, bittersweet and beguiling. If it is to be the band’s final album, their own “Endsong”, they have gone out on a high.

In facing mortality, Smith has created something beautiful, bleak, bittersweet and beguiling. If it is to be the band’s final album, their own “Endsong”, they have gone out on a high.