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01. The Caretaker - Stage 4: Post Awareness Confusions
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02. The Caretaker - Stage 4: Post Awareness Confusions
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03. The Caretaker - Stage 4: Temporary Bliss State
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04. The Caretaker - Stage 4: Post Awareness Confusions
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05. The Caretaker - Stage 5: Advanced Plaque Entanglements
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06. The Caretaker - Stage 5: Advanced Plaque Entanglements
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07. The Caretaker - Stage 5: Synapse Retrogenesis
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08. The Caretaker - Stage 5: Sudden Time Regression Into Isolation
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09. The Caretaker - Stage 6: Confusion So Thick You Forget Forgetting
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10. The Caretaker - Stage 6: A Brutal Bliss Beyond This Empty Defeat
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11. The Caretaker - Stage 6: Long Decline Is Over
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12. The Caretaker - Stage 6: Place In The World Fades Away
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ARTIST
CARETAKER, THE
TITLE
Everywhere At The End Of Time Stages 4-6
FORMAT
4CD
LABEL
HISTORY ALWAYS FAVOURS THE WINNERS
CATALOG #
HAFTW 406CD
HAFTW 406CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
4/12/2019
Compiling the last three albums in the
Everywhere At The End Of Time
series -- four CDs and almost five hours of material cataloging the ultimate descent into dementia and oblivion, using a patented prism of sound to connote a final, irreversible transition into the haunted ballroom of the mind that he first stepped into with 1999's
Selected Memories From the Haunted Ballroom
. Invoking
Jack Nicolson
's caretaker character in
Stanley Kubrick
/
Stephen King
's
The Shining
as metaphor for issues revolving around mental health and a growing dissociation/dissatisfaction with the world, the project really took on new dimensions in 2005 with the 72-track, six-CD boxset
Theoretically Pure Anterograde Amnesia
, which was accompanied by an insightful unpacking of its ideas by cultural critic
Mark Fisher
, aka K-Punk; a stalwart of the project who identified it (alongside music from
Burial
and
Broadcast
) among the most vital, emergent works of hauntological art -- a form of music often preoccupied with ideas about memory and nostalgia (but one distinct from pastiche), and the way that they possibly overwhelm, occlude, or even define our sense of being; ideas that resonate with Fisher's own assertion that capitalism essentially undermines collective thought, distorts the individual, and has tragically lead to a worldwide increase or even ubiquity of mental health-related issues. By using fusty samples from an obsolete analog format, and by doing so in the second decade of the second millennium,
The Caretaker
perfectly and perversely bent ideas of anticipation/expectation with his arrangements, playing with notions of convention and repetition with effect that would lead some listeners to wonder if the same record was being released over and again. When combined with
Ivan Seal
's bespoke painting for each release from 2011's
An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
onwards, the project crystallized as a real gesamtkunstwerk for these times, and one arguably defined by a stubborn and intractably chronic drive against the grain of modern popular culture, or even a refusal of it.
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