Everywhere at the End of Time: Stage 6

by The Caretaker

Everywhere at the End of Time: Stage 6 cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 14 March 2019
  • Label: History Always Favours the Winners, History Always Favours The Winners
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:25:56
  • Community rating: 3.92/5 from 16 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Everywhere at the End of Time: Stage 6' concludes the six-part series by sonically representing the terminal, post-awareness phase of dementia. This final installment largely abandons the manipulated ballroom samples of its predecessors for vast, unsettling passages of noise, crackle, and droning ambiance, simulating the near-total void of a mind erased by illness. The four lengthy tracks culminate in a depiction of oblivion, marking the conceptual end of the patient's consciousness and the symbolic final release under the Caretaker alias.

Genres

Descriptors: ambient, experimental, minimal, conceptual, long-form, lo-fi, sample-heavy, droning

Tracklist

  1. O1 - Stage 6 A confusion so thick you forget forgetting (21:52)
  2. P1 - Stage 6 A brutal bliss beyond this empty defeat (21:36)
  3. Q1 - Stage 6 Long decline is over (21:09)
  4. R1 - Stage 6 Place in the World fades away (21:19)

Credits

  • James Leyland Kirby - producer, musician
  • Ivan Seal - artwork

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