The Caretaker — Camaraderie at Arm’s Length
Like 2008’s Persistent Repetition of Phrases, Leyland Kirby’s An Empty Bliss Beyond This World hinges on the concepts of half-remembrance and faint recollection, tripping through subconscious catacombs on a wave of static and century-old source material. In an effort to document memory loss and degradation, Kirby delved into his stack of old ballroom records and sampled away, concocting a world of ghostly murmurs and gathering dust. The results of his experiment are effectively (and sometimes off-puttingly) eerie; listening to tracks like “Camaraderie”, you feel as if you’ve stumbled into a long-abandoned manor, places still set at the table and a gramophone skipping restlessly in the corner. I don’t doubt that An Empty Bliss is the most haunted thing you’ll hear all day— have your ouja boards at the ready.
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