24/11/2020
"I tried to make my listening notes as descriptive as I could, but this became more and more difficult as the album went on. I ordered the notes according to the six stages of the album, and included the descriptions of each stage that are featured on the description box for the album on YouTube, which seem to be written by Kirby himself. Before I let you delve into my live-logged terror, I think I should first go into a bit more detail about the album and the man who made it.
The Caretaker is a project that Kirby had been working on for 20 years, and his six-part behemoth Everywhere At The End Of Time can be seen as the artist’s magnum opus; it most fully explores the ideas of memory, nostalgia, decay and mental illness that define the project. Kirby worked on EATEOT for three years; the first section in the series released in 2016, he proceeded to release each section after a six-month period, the final section released in 2019, which marked the end of The Caretaker project for Kirby.
I was first introduced to The Caretaker’s music through a link to his 2011 album An Empty Bliss Beyond This World on a thread in a Facebook music group; enticed by the enigmatic title and its strange cover art (an illustration of a large rock boulder smoking a cigarette), I gave it a brief listen. I found the comments under the video seeking to describe the music to be just as interesting as the music itself: ‘feels like going back to your childhood home only to realize everyone’s gone and you’re alone’, ‘This is the soundtrack for a piece of fruit decomposing’, ‘When you try to remember Obama’s last name’. "
https://yeomagazine.com/I-listened-to-the-six-hour-long-most-terrifying-album-ever-made-so