What Are You Listening To (Part II)?

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Beautiful

 

[Jaguar]

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[Mind Maverick]

 

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Popped up on one of my music channels. I’m on an 80’s synth kick right now and it’s definitely got a New Order-ish vibe to it.

I should be asleep. Insomnia, it’s a hell of a drug.

 

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[Peter Deadpan]

A 6.5 hour haunting depiction of the decline into dementia until total disappearance.

"Everywhere At The End Of Time's first three volumes cover familiar musical ground, almost like a recap of The Caretaker's past work. Crackly, century-old big band and ballroom songs are presented in their entirety. After a time, the mood turns ominous. But in subsequent parts Kirby brings The Caretaker into agonizing new realms. These latter volumes attempt to capture the "post-awareness" stages, the point at which the patient no longer realizes they have a problem. The music becomes unstable and patience-testing. Kirby has called Everywhere At The End Of Time's last three stages an attempt at making "listenable chaos."

By Stage Six, this approach reaches a harrowing peak. On the opener, "Confusion So Thick You Forget Forgetting," foreboding drones dominate. Snatches of music are hidden by obfuscating layers on "Long Decline Is Over," where the music remains frustratingly out of reach—at times you can sense it's there, but it's impossible to make out. "A Brutal Bliss Beyond This Empty Defeat," a swirl of repetitive noises and discordant notes, is a portrait of complete chaos and confusion. It seems designed to drive the listener to madness.

Everywhere At The End Of Time's length lends it a unique force. The four tracks on Stage Six are not so much sad as upsetting, and they last upwards of 20 minutes at a time. This forces the listener to come to terms with what Alzheimer's entails. When considering the six-hour length of the project, it becomes truly overwhelming. In a mental descent rendered in agonizingly slow motion, the listener experiences every minute change until everything is reduced to a dull, grey mush.

The lengths Kirby goes to in conveying this descent into Alzheimer's is captivating. You might find yourself returning to the final chapters to hear the finer points in the music, which involved a painstaking process that took hundreds of hours of manipulation and experimentation to get right. Blurring the boundary between music and sound art, Kirby turns ambient music, amorphous and indistinct, into a wrenching emotional device. The foggier the music becomes, the richer it gets."

 

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Cultural.

 

[Mind Maverick]

*Sigh* Kurt Cobain = example of why bipolar shouldn't go untreated.

 

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Beautiful.

 

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