In plotting sounds of loss, in renderings of decay and imaginings of the deepest dark, The Caretaker remembers to believe in what it could be beyond this world. It’s why he made this in the first place.
By putting the listener in the place of someone who is losing their mind, Everywhere At The End Of Time translates something unimaginable through a more easily understood medium: the manipulation and decay of recorded sound.
For the last six years I've been visiting my gran in the nursing home and for four of those she's been diagnosed with dementia - I have to tell you it is pretty harrowing, firstly to see her deterioration but also to think the disease could easily one day affect my mother, brother, myself or indeed anyone else important in my life.
There's a feeling that this disease has had its tentacles in her mind longer than she's been diagnosed, her personality has always had certain peculiarities...just ... read more
Edit: a review for all six phases of Everywhere at the end of time. Aofy doesn't have it comiled as an album.
Yesterday evening I knew I was going to listen this album for the first time through, after having listened to 1hour and 50 minutes before and quitting. I found myself threatened by the intensity and concertation is demanded. So yesterday all day, I felt like I was preparing for something monolithical that would have a profound effect. I was right - it did. It loosened up such a ... read more
Edit: A new thought on this masterpiece.
For me it gives the listener the simulation of not only dementia but an insight into the lives of those so overcome by depression that existence is an ever-worsening grey static.
Eerie nothingness, then disorientation (I felt like I couldn't function properly for a good 15 minutes), followed by a brief moment of tranquillity and remembrance before an end.
Feelings an album has not often made me feel, especially in one release.
Stage #6
The end of the road. Literally and figuratively. Sounds like it too. Dark emptiness after dark emptiness. The song titles are so dark too. A confusion so thick you forget forgetting and place in the world fades away are just scary to read. Q1 has an amazing dark paino in the latter part of it.
The ending is just out of this world. Especially if you ended up listening to the last three volumes back to back as I did.
The most beautiful things can be found in the darkest places.
consider this a review for the entire album, stages 1-6. hauntingly and beautifully tragic.
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