The CaretakerBest The Caretaker Albums Ranked
8.6
Avg Score
14
Opinions
5
Albums
7
Reviewers
Summary from 14 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated The Caretaker's catalog across 5 albums from 14 opinions, with an overall average of 8.6/10. The top-rated The Caretaker album is An empty bliss beyond this World (2011) with a 8.7/10 average from 6 ratings, followed by Everywhere at the End of Time (Stage 6) and Persistent repetition of phrases. The discography on Wavelength spans 2011 to 2024.
An empty bliss beyond this World
“James Leyland Kirby, the British producer also known for his work as V/Vm, returns as Caretaker with a haunting and gorgeous series of edits from old 78s.”
Patience (After Sebald)
“Leyland Kirby follows last year's An Empty Bliss Beyond This World with the soundtrack to a film about German writer W.G. Sebald. Instead of jazz-age ballroom music, it samples and manipulates recordings of Franz Schubert's Winterreise.”
Everywhere at the End of Time (Stage 6)
“The fourth installment of Leyland Kirby’s six-part series as the Caretaker is his most visceral album yet, an ambient look at the degradation of music and memory.”
Everywhere at the End of Time (Stage 1)
“Ambient music has a habit of all running together, but on 2011’s *An Empty Bliss Beyond This World*, James Leyland Kirby devised a series of ways to stand out. He invoked the purgatorial ballroom of *The Shining *[](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/)with his project’s name, [the Caretaker](https://pitchfork.com/artists/29716-the-caretaker/); layered it with Alzheimer’s studies; and spun it thro”
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