The Caretaker's An Empty Bliss Beyond This World

0:00 - All You Are Going To Want To Do Is Get Back There
3:45 - Moments Of Sufficient Lucidity
7:33 - The Great Hidden Sea Of The Unconscious
10:35 - Libet's Delay
14:00 - I Feel As If Might Be Vanishing
15:57 - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
20:16 - Bedded Deep In Long Term Memory
22:05 - A Relationship With The Sublime
25:40 - Mental Caverns Without Sunshine
28:54 - Pared Back To The Minimal
30:40 - Mental Caverns Without Sunshine
32:15 - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
36:03 - Tiny Gradiations Of Loss
38:55 - Camaraderie At Arms Length
43:41 - The Sublime Is Disappointingly Elusive
45:25 - Fleeting Dreams
48:28 - The Story Is Lost

[@SX1995able]

This is what it feels like when you look through your saved videos on KZbin and it says Video removed But you don't even remember what the video was

[@BryceZed]

fuuuuuc, you're right

[@miles2978]

so true...

[@cozzy124]

Goddam..

[@PacoCotero1221]

@@Elitepreta thanks for the idea mate you won't be forgotten

[@juancitolimon8743]

real

[@444lilou5]

i love how some comments are interpreting this in such serious contemplative ways, and then other comments are "hehe boulder smoking a ciggie"

[@checkYVELLUAP]

It looks more like a matchstick

[@ringtail5021]

Yeah, there’s not much to love about that.

[@rusmiller816]

It's a pinner.

[@SpicyMang0s]

coping mechanisms through comedy

[@DeathByDegrees10]

Quality Work Don’t dodge my question. Coping with what? There’s nothing to cope with here, besides one’s abysmal personal taste in music as to had led them here. I’ve asked on this artist’s other videos, other commenters, and not a single person can provide any decent reason why they get so flustered and crybaby-ish over some over-and-under convoluted noise and ambient tunes. I think this artist has congregated the first cult of hipsters

[@foolycooly3763]

Woke up from a dream that my father no longer had dementia, we spent days together in my childhood home and I was crying tears of happiness. Toward the end of the dream he had to go “back home” and I couldn’t stop balling my eyes out. Waking up and getting ready for work while this album plays seems fitting today.

[@Man.2024.]

I'm sorry, I can understand how it feels to be trapped in a loop of having to hide the fact that things are the way they are. The things can be really depressing. I'm sorry.

[@MikkelKjrJensen]

I am so sorry.

[@girlinagale]

My 90 year old mum passed a couple of months ago with Parkinson's and other issues. Now she's not here but she's free of Parkinson's and all other issues. I used to care for her, I asked her, "What do you really want?". She just said, "Freedom." It took her a few months to navigate the path but she achieved her freedom.

[@coleharding9439]

:,(

[@TheDeankelly]

❤

[@bloodystatic4156]

To describe this album, it’s like the calm before the storm, the golden age before everything goes wrong...

[@hoobaguy4311]

Kinda like 2020?

[@Calebthecreator]

It’s an empty bliss.

[@Dan-ii5wz]

The brief moment of calm before the eclipse decends and the logic of the world breaks

[@melodie-allynbenezra8956]

It feels like this album is a prelude to "Everywhere at the End of Time."

[@defttyesbro432]

This album is actually about psuedodemetia

[@neutronpixie6106]

My grandma just came into my room and said that this was trippy. I had to remind her that she's been dead for 15 years now and needs to shut the hell up. I hate it when she's right though.

[@aZeddPrattFilm]

Neutron Pixie .....ahhhhh

[@lemieux4825]

Oh

[@napppstar0]

Best one

[@RizzaholicsAnonymous]

Bruh I'm high this shit is hurting my mind

[@ethanol8312]

"Ayo boy this shit trippy"

[@uberhaswifi8987]

I feel like this song plays inside a fridge when it’s closed

[@dildosaggins2960]

hell yeah the food getting jazzed up for the next opening

[@jorixonian]

this one comment just eliminated my existential dread regarding The Caretaker.

[@mealzonwealz4327]

holy shit bro I get exactly what you mean, thats so randomly like correct

[@deepankar853]

damn!

[@TheJedo]

mental caverns will play in the freezer

[@SwirlEye]

i lost the friend that showed this to me yesterday. shes gone forever. but olive, this will be our album, forever and always.

[@feltstuffing]

i'm so sorry for your loss :( 💐

[@xXluluchanelXx]

I wish I knew how to make it better. please know it's going to be okay

[@a_lbymccool1478]

Olive

[@feltstuffing]

@@a_lbymccool1478 ,,people are named olive sometimes. that's a normal name

[@a_lbymccool1478]

@@feltstuffing Olivia is a normal name, not Olive, olive is the name of a fruit

[@blase1856]

It's currently 12 AM on christmas night, i am half drunk and feeling the secret emotions.

[@arecib5751]

You actually did it I'm honored to have witnessed you accomplish this

[@NoibatFan]

It is currently 12 am on Christmas eve. I understand what you mean now.

[@smuirhead3107]

ooooh... ...4:32 am. Christmas Eve 22..... ...peace and love beautiful, magnificent beings. I love you 🧡🙏💛

[@CopperyVase6760]

bro same

[@Smileythebuilding]

I’m doing this at 12 AM after Christmas, I did not forget that comment, everyone get ready for tomorrow

[@generalrubbish9513]

When you wake up from a really vivid dream and for the rest of the day, you're just plagued by fake memories of people that never existed.

[@L_mattox]

The fact of the matter is, that your brain cannot make up entirely fake faces, so everyone in those dreams is based on a real person that you saw, or saw an image/video of. It makes me wonder if any strangers have ever dreamed, and saw my face.

[@SStupendous]

Woah, both replies are on 17 likes, it's a tie folks, I wonder who will win

[@fancyfox3602]

@@L_mattox Ah yes, because drawing people isn't a thing. It's 100% impossible to make up a new face.

[@eggthing-dx2oz]

i had this one dream where i was freinds with two people one being a really pretty mature blonde lady the other i don’t really remember other then he was big and strong and that we three were great friends and we used to hang around a swing that i used to be on in 2th grade i was truly shocked when i woke up and realized that it was just a really good dream i had

[@generalrubbish9513]

@@eggthing-dx2oz Yeah, that's the worst thing, isn't it? That sense of loss when you wake up and realize you just dreamed of being friends with a nonexistent person. The feeling of mourning someone who never even lived at all.

[@hosatus2433]

A fancy dining parlour in the 20s, except everyone's just dead

[@hexentoll5278]

It's funny to realize that 20s are today

[@nascentspace]

Also it’s kinda on fire

[@Xervolmao]

@@nascentspace 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙧

[@hosatus2433]

We're in the 20's again... And it's somehow worse

[@-brianflix-6292]

The Shining

[@brokenblender12]

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we voyage this far" -H. P. Lovecraft

[@Lollerlol12]

This album reminds me of the following quote; "We are at a wonderful ball where the champagne sparkles in every glass and soft laughter falls upon the summer air. We know, by the rules, that at some moment the Black Horsemen will come shattering through the great terrace doors, wreaking vengeance and scattering the survivors. Those who leave early are saved, but the ball is so splendid no one wants to leave while there still is time, so that everyone is asking "What time is it? What time is it?" But none of the clocks have any hands.

[@reddeadredemption4736]

everyone gangsta until you pause the video and the music don't stop.

[@ryaneum4656]

Jesus crist I'd need a gun for that

[@captaincaspin5035]

new psychological horror movie plot

[@proud22beme]

i love how the mood this puts you in just sticks around, it really makes the impact of this so much better

[@bulmus]

embarrassing cos Once got so high decided to listen to this to calm down a little and then this actually happened to me

[@reddeadredemption4736]

@@bulmus oh damn lmao

[@carsanxgen1466]

this album is what being the last person on earth would feel like

[@carsanxgen1466]

like imagine exploring all of humanities achievements and it then all just dies with you..

[@UltraAar]

@Bebopman Current Jesus love you my friend

[@kcwelsch]

This is how Arthur C. Clarke's "Childhood's End" ends.

[@drew1392]

It's like that one episode of the Twilight Zone. "A little peace and quiet"

[@cameronkoch6842]

@Bebopman Current it's the thought that counts

[@lara-uc1wd]

the caretaker’s album speaks words that don’t exist but we understand

[@chloeboydchannel]

oh my god, you're right.

[@tonyvega1705]

lol, i thinkn this is gonna be underated at some point.

[@lara-uc1wd]

@@tonyvega1705 definitely not for me, i love the album and it holds something special for me

[@JO-hj4kp]

@@lara-uc1wd what or who is the caretaker?

[@Delta-07999]

​​@@JO-hj4kp The Caretaker is a nickname for the person who made the album

[@JohnnyMontilla]

The entire album is one of the most hauntingly beautiful things... It takes you to such a vivid place.

[@highstreet_music]

oh my god johnny i love your videos

[@Oshic1273]

Jonny motenegro

[@yourmom6472]

I didn’t expect him to be here

[@Dooggey.]

Yo Johnny I found you here… for some reason

[@czpiaor]

When you visit a youtube video for the first time and you see a comment you liked 3 years ago:

[@setsers1]

😔Yeah...I'm lucky to find my old ones.

[@elflogisto3089]

See you in 2023!!!

[@kokichbutcursed]

Yeah. Instead it was my own comment. I saw one from my old account that I still have access to and it said "Yeah, my brother named Willy's annoying" or something like that and I was like "mood" until I read Willy and I was like: "OH THAT'S ME"

[@definitelynotagenocider5204]

@@elflogisto3089 yeah see ya

[@boenana-3054]

@@kokichbutcursed at least you recognized your own account right?

[@techdeckdudes_]

Dude the Caretaker over here making me feel like an elderly person on my deathbed reflecting on my mid-30s

[@somethingwithbungalows]

Suddenly- immense dread and fear of the unknown aka death

[@Peeguzzler]

@@eggiej4146 stop trying to be edgy and feel like you're the only one you aren't special because you are here you are merely 1 of hundreds of thousands

[@eggiej4146]

SaltySouls Stop targeting random people on the internet if you have nothing better to say than don’t write it.

[@Peeguzzler]

@@eggiej4146 aww did I hurt your feelers you're 13 but still reference kids movies

[@eggiej4146]

SaltySouls what are you talking about I didn’t reference anything and how old are you to know about it in the first place. Plus your very immature to make a dumb argument about someone commenting something on a KZbin video because it doesn’t appeal to your “social standards”

[@clumsysilence]

We took care of my grandma in our home as she was dying of dementia/parkinson's. We were by her side 24/7 and didn't have any nurses, just us. We stayed up all night with her the night she died, making sure she had her medicine every two hours like instructed. We had watched her deteriorate over the years, and that morning the silence and the stillness were so deafening, just knowing that it was over. It was all gone, she was gone. Her life, her memories, her mind, everything. I usually feel like it wasn't that bad, but every time I hear any of these songs it just feels like a stab in the heart. It expresses the deep fear and anxiety and sorrow of not only someone losing their mind, but having to watch someone lose their mind right in front of you and there's nothing you can do to stop it. I can't even listen to these albums without crying.

[@that1toad64]

The Caretaker's works always make me feel... Unexplainable emotions, but at the same time, I think you know how I feel.

[@Bindleton]

It's like sitting at a bar with a bunch of faceless individuals

[@somethingwithbungalows]

Creepy..

[@kush__dracula7809]

Dementia

[@somethingwithbungalows]

So on January 10th I wrote something about this lmao I was...Jerry... you hearin’ this? Yeah.. I was sittin’ there... Jerry... with a bunch of faceless individuals... That so, friend? Yeah! They all had no faces! Jerry can you believe it? I... yes, friend... I do believe it. Faceless you say? Yeah Jerry! Faceless! Dressed up. All dressed up in fancy suits.. as if.. they were going somewhere Jerry! What a crazy conundrum. I know. And.. music was playin’, Jerry, it was soothing to my brain. Nice, slow, beautiful tunes.. coming from all sides. I’d love to see and hear it all again Jerry! I’d love to as well. You think I will... hear it again... see it, Jerry? Oh yes friend, I believe it. Were you asleep or awake? I... oh Jerry... I don’t know... You don’t know? I don’t... what... what’s... who’s my name? Friend.. y- Friend? Yes? Who...... am I? Jerry... who am I? 11:42 - 11:52 PM 10 minutes

[@ReallyRedPanda]

@@somethingwithbungalows That is utterly haunting and perfectly written. Very well done!

[@CML-rl1rx]

Sounds like my idea of a good time

[@bmaniac12-81]

Imagine your card declines at the memory loss doctor and they just play this

[@rhubarbdude3347]

Get emptybliss'd

[@hugh_manners]

Nah they would probably play Everywhere at the end of time

[@EndsToAMean]

@@hugh_manners this song is a part of that album.

[@setsers1]

Oh please no

[@miznix4166]

they leave the room and they never come back making you stay there forever

[@BlackFlagHeathen]

I love this because it’s more “no thoughts, head empty,” and not pure existential horror and dread like EATEOT.

[@rgbtoaster9409]

Feels like something you loved, but can’t remember.

[@Ultimatesunflower]

My life in a nutshell 😂😂😂😂

[@gmdFrame]

Nah

[@Delta-07999]

Like 2022?

[@grenadesuzy1]

Sounds like a dance party, but no one is dancing.

[@David-vr4bx]

Top ten comment

[@David-vr4bx]

Elixir Skull that would actually be creepy tho,just a bunch of people standing around doing nothing

[@mintyman1413]

Like a song you hear in your head at a funeral

[@puppetguts]

Sounds like a dance party, but everyone is dead

[@phantom3789]

@@puppetguts that sentence gave me goosebumps

[@drumticks]

I don't think i've ever read youtube comments for 52 minutes straight before.

[@jemny7076]

Drumstick wow can relate

[@m32491]

@@jemny7076 I wish I could print these out.

[@crylore7556]

watch the full Caretaker album an you'll be reading comments for more than 6 hours straight :)

[@drumticks]

@@crylore7556 *_sweats_*

[@ascraeusorange9157]

I meannnn nows a pretty good time to do that, with corona and all.. Dw I’ll do it with you lel

[@Shef3341]

My mother died nearly a year ago just before my birthday, she would work as a housekeeper in rather modern hotel. And she would give me random gifts or stories after her job. Once she took me to a tour of the staff rooms and the hotel itself. I went to that hotel, played this album and boy. The nostalgia I felt can't even be expressed

[@Delta-07999]

I'm sorry for your loss

[@viktorzelenka9157]

This comment section is one of the only places where a user named "bigballsbiggercock" writes the most touching, insightful, heartwarming string of text you have ever laid your eyes upon, and I love it.

[@BigWrinklySack]

No

[@YourAverageOnePieceWatcher]

bro its 3 am and i can't stop laughing at this help 💀💀💀

[@BigWrinklySack]

@@YourAverageOnePieceWatcher can i tickle your pickle to make you 'laugh' even 'harder'

[@user-ke9ip2nk7e]

where

[@cinedanmatrix]

dude, I feel the same way. I remember this album exists about once a year, and the comments section always seems to have a perfect description of this album!

[@ArtistTheArtist05]

This has that “I wish the fun times never ended” feeling you get after hanging with friends

[@hive5123]

That just hit me hard. Really hard.

[@justthomas2488]

@@hive5123 semi truck into the chest

[@jacronical]

I usually cry after hanging out with my friends because of that exact feeling. Damn it hit hard

[@donotreadthis26]

"See you tomorrow" - last online 4173 days ago

[@GoodLuckSoldierMusic]

It reminds me of finishing my drinking on Christmas night with all the lights off except the Christmas tree and soaking up the last bit of magic the day has to offer.

[@halcyonherascarter7018]

i was zoning out while listening to this and my cats rammed into my door to try to get in and i 100% thought i was going to die

[@sofiajjk]

it was a vibe check

[@sethr.c1065]

I hate it when there's a break in my pet's coding. One of these days they're going to switch to aggro while I'm sleeping or taking a dump

[@since4everrr]

my cat politely knocks wtf is ur cat on

[@riaowhaiwhn3525]

norman likes to jiggle the door knob as aggressively as possible, i know how you feel

[@nyoom9814]

Halcyon Herascarter i was laying in bed watching reviews of this album and then there was this loud bass sound probably from a car at 2 am outside my house happening every 30 seconds and I started crying cause I thought I was in danger

[@kingnugget4050]

10 years Where did it all go Looking back, all I feel is an empty bliss beyond this world

[@brendenstahl7007]

🎉

[@MangoMakesArt]

I remember watching a video with the name being something along the lines of "EATEOT VS The Internet". It was a good video, but one thing that stood out to me was how TikTok saw these works. More specifically, the few people who claim it's just reverb and noise. It's more than that. It's not only reverb and noise, it is also the clever panning you hear with headphones at times. It's also the hours and hours of work put into listening to the sample material. I think the number of hours was somewhere at 920? The amount of effort put into these hours isn't noticeable in the first few minutes. Great stuff.

[@newt1144]

This is what it probably feels like for gas station employees at 3am, as they watch a car pass by every half hour or so.

[@quonkylops]

Probably ye

[@enriquedavid5269]

Best one yet

[@vivian-rs2ms]

correct, but consider this: this is what it feels like when tipsy at a waffle house at 3 am

[@madamebovary7211]

Not such a bad job.

[@mariegp5021]

@@vivian-rs2ms can confirm this is exactly what it feels like

[@unassumingaccount395]

This is how it feels like being in your grandmothers house when everyone is grown up and it feels less sentimental than before.

[@pussyplumber5179]

fuck

[@morgandeloach1040]

glad it’s not just me. recently visited her last week and realized how outdated the place really is and she doesn’t even realize.

[@plaguex1]

Fuck me.... that hurt

[@handinhand4484]

Yeah…it is😟

[@sharx2002]

We had to sell my grandma's house. Gutted the whole thing, removed all furniture, tore out every bit of sentimentality piece by piece. I'll never be able to go back there again. Time is really the longest distance between two places.

[@DOG_EATER_1887]

Hearing this doesn't just make me nostalgic, weirdly enough it makes me think about what I'd be nostalgic about. About what my life would ultimately look like. And each time i return to this album, and with every second that passes by, i ask myself: Am i wasting my life? I could be out in the world, developing relationships and connections. Or i could be sharpening my talents and improving my skills. Working to build something for myself. An identity worth being nostalgic for, and a life worth having lived. I've done none of these things though. Instead I've sat here on my ass, letting my issues continue to fester instead of confronting them, and truly progressing my life. And yet, even having realized this, it doesn't really make me really want to do something about it. Instead I'm writing this comment. But this album has been able to help me at least recognize what I'm doing, even if unintentionally, and make me ask questions about myself. I do genuinely feel a sense of urgency for how I plan to spend my life, and some of these tracks have really amplified that. Dementia is a really sad thing. But what would be even sadder would be to have nothing worth remembering in the first place. I wonder if i will change. I guess that's on me.

[@MegaTron7568]

dude went full philosophical mode on this one

[@ghoste1138]

You aren't alone. I'm in the exact same situation. It gets better though, nothing lasts forever, and eventually there will be change, whether it's for better or worse, new experiences will come your way. Don't be afraid to take chances, and try and seek things that interest you. These things take time, so don't beat yourself up. Keep your head up, and keep on marching on. You got this.

[@reyzcc]

I felt sad reading this. It’s like I wrote it too coz I feel exactly the same way. I feel like I’m missing a lot, I feel like I’m left behind and I could’ve accomplished better if I only tried harder but no, I’m here stuck in my comfort shell, waiting to be forgotten or somehow, wishing things will turn around someday. I still believe there’s always something better coming our way. Good luck to your life journey, lock your frustrations in a hidden box and just be grateful on what you have now. Everything will get better if not now, at the right time.

[@chillpizza_wastaken]

Its a longer version of "I need to touch grass"

[@user-gs5jc7rs9k]

I feel u dog eater.

[@nibblesowo]

It’s like an empty ballroom. Once there was celebration, now only echoes remain.

[@rainbowdashplaynove]

I feel like I’m rotting

[@geist5998]

Oh, you are

[@notaninstrument7707]

Meme Bean oop

[@kombuchas4684]

no snom don't melt :(

[@bochen1079]

Here’s some disinfectant, apply every 12 hours. Remember to wash your hands, that stuff doesn’t taste very good.

[@killerpickle7320]

Everyone it may take 20 years it may take 80 but everyone has a time to rot

[@lcdream4213]

brother coming in: you listening to jazz *me: yea........something like that*

[@averageD4Tenjoyer]

whats jazz? who are you? my brother? i dont remember having one huh....

[@ChrisPoindexter98]

existential crisis jazz, maybe

[@bromomento5913]

@@averageD4Tenjoyer jazz music stop playing

[@soejrd24978]

Cherish those moments with brother, they're over sooner than you expect..

[@_r.munro_8339]

Swear this exact comment is on EATEOT

[@cupsofpog4999]

This album makes me feel the sensation of walking through a strange place, a never ending march to an unknown area.

[@gmdFrame]

Yeah... I had a dream like that.

[@adiywn]

As someone who recently graduated from college and started working a nine-to-five job while living alone in a small studio, this album brings solace amidst the rollercoaster of life.

[@lolitawork]

It's so familiar yet so distant, Like when you confuse dreams with memories and memories with dreams

[@yang3479]

lolitawork libretto No don’t, that hurts.... my brain capacity can not handle such true words

[@wasolaso1840]

The theme of this album is an old person losing their memory, so this is exactly how you're supposed to feel

[@lolitawork]

@@wasolaso1840 interesting!

[@shiny5068]

ur not deep lmao

[@lolitawork]

@@shiny5068 I never said I was? I'm anything but deep! I don't think in general lol

[@faceofdoomness]

Genre: Void Lounge

[@ksfishchannel]

I concur.

[@sednafloating7027]

shinewave

[@fewl6607]

poser

[@nomadfromkarlsruhe8259]

I approve

[@cosbypoop]

Uneasy Listening

[@person8246]

i forgor 💀

[@sssaym]

the fact that i strongly relate to this puts me in an even worse mood than i already was

[@TraviskyOriginal]

Unfunny

[@ecrotek3005]

Bruv be careful you bout to get dementia mane💀💀

[@yourlocalhockeygirl7719]

Literally same

[@pdr_2703]

cringe af

[@user-pl2go7hh7d]

이 음악은 앨범 커버만큼 기괴합니다. 이것은 온화하며 따뜻한 음악처럼 보이지만 극도로 이질적이며 낯선 감정을 시청자에게 선사합니다. 마치 어두운 방 안에서 만들다 만 플라스틱 모조 장미가 비닐로 만들어진 화분에 꽂혀 있는 듯한 인상입니다.

[@authentic_candor]

Dude, after the second track started i really liked the first track better so i went to restart it. THE NAME OF THE TRACK IS "ALL YOU ARE GONNA WANT TO DO IS GET BACK THERE" BRO GET ME TF OUUUTTTT

[@ilaya4183]

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@skylertheliger932]

IKR

[@UrMom-ut5yt]

What

[@morgankasper5227]

listion to it in its entirety

[@skylertheliger932]

@@morgankasper5227 I have, it was such a bizzare yet wonderful experience, I never felt this way about music

[@joners45]

It feels like an old bar but everytime you try to leave, you end up in a duplicate bar with the same people and conversations.

[@HeortirtheWoodwarden]

I think there's a short horror game like this

[@anomolouscow3761]

@@HeortirtheWoodwarden You are either thinking of The Black Rose, which takes place in a bar, or Spime, which takes place in a diner.

[@HeortirtheWoodwarden]

@@anomolouscow3761 I guess it's The Black Rose

[@dumkorph]

Well said

[@charlottecarter2748]

I get the same feeling when my dad plays sweet home Alabama everyday

[@ms.sataninc.9560]

I actually found this album on an ice berg looking for weird/disturbing content and I’m so glad I found this. It’s genuinely so unsettling but comforting at the same time like waking up from a dream and trying to get yourself reacquainted with your bedroom while you’re warm in your blankets. Also kinda feels like that dissociation mood of existing but slightly to the right of your body

[@Lucy-xg9rm]

This feels like everything is alright but at the same time something horrible is going to happen.

[@edceldionisio3686]

this sounds like the mysterious fm station that I'd find when I was a kid listening to my portable sony radio at 2am

[@somethingwithbungalows]

Can you recall any times where you actually found something really weird?

[@willchase5692]

I remember it was all just news

[@chE3z1]

i used to do that but with a survival radio that could pick up shortwave i found some really eerie but somehow comforting stations like what seemed to be HAM broadcasters from around the world, global time sync stations, religious stations, various news stations, and one station playing music similar to this.

[@somethingwithbungalows]

gunny I’d feel pretty sullen if I found a station playin’ this type of music. I’m not a conspiracy theorist but... broadcasts from the past?

[@sketchyarts7027]

@@somethingwithbungalows wack man maybe

[@campernocamping1]

Feels like trying to remember your own name.

[@marionow6227]

Like waking up in the morning and thinking what who where am I

[@lucifermorningstar6169]

Or trying to hear your real name for the first time.

[@medude420024]

This album is a depiction of the descent into dementia/alzheimers so.. You are correct, this album is supposed to be how it feels trying to remember your name

[@medude420024]

@PUNMPKIN Beat me by 5 days on that reply lol

[@trppstar]

I remember being at the dentist and halfway under and half awake, and I could hear music playing, and it was the best music I had ever heard, and it sorta sounds like this but not as close by a long shot in enjoyment,

[@Snowi1]

I wrote this while listening to the entire album for the first time. I think I'm a different person... An Empty Bliss Beyond This World A faint, crackling static, not that of a television or radio, but perhaps a record player buried deep inside one of the empty, dim rooms lost in a seemingly never ending hallway. A hallway that appears to be familiar, somewhere within the fading confines of my recollection. Maybe even sometimes the out-of-tune chords and melodies would repeatedly echo and clack off of a decaying, decomposing piano. But it’s in a different direction as the reminiscing popping of the static. Every single key and note lightly ends, but then abruptly the same melody as before repeats. Every single time the cycle repeats, it was as if I was sent back without knowledge of the same melody. After a while again, it would change. More and more lost into the dark, long hallway with rooms that seem to emit darkness, though it's not logically possible. The static gets louder, and the tunes more faint, more down the hallway, maybe even in a room that had its door shut. A memory, perhaps not even reconcilable from my past, flashes. Laughter. In this single hallway, giggles radiate from indistinct faces surrounding me. The industrial panel lights had a deep connection to my being, though they were almost unbearably blinding. And then, as the tune changed once again, it snapped away from my grasp. Irreconcilable camaraderie embodied only in the deepest caverns of mentality. It got shorter. I mean the melody. Is it even a melody? It swirled within my mind, literally. I heard it go from left to right as it tried to find which part of my head to manifest in. But it couldn’t find anywhere to be attached. The only peace of my own mind is the furthermore distorting and crackling static that became not only tangible in the nostalgic, empty and barren hallways, reminiscing itself of its past joy, deprived of a state of even being human, but also tangible within the shrinking, thoughtless existence of my mind. What do I even call it at this point? I wish my personality was forgetful, yet I am cursed with my head being forgetful. The concept of forgetting things is a more darkening and dreading actuality of this hallway. Each room is different. Each room has its own tune for a different day. Each room repeats more often than the ones I remembered more. But the rooms that repeat more are also the rooms that are dreadful, fearing of void, and fearing of sunshine itself. But were the past rooms less frightening than these ones? Oh, I forgot. I think the rooms forgot me. Sometimes I have loosening nostalgia of a room. Because later down the road, the room is louder than before, and more unique than before. It’s more warming instead of having crushing dread that repeats over and over. Sometimes the seam that covers over a cavern isn’t noticeable. But I wish my head wasn’t forgetful, I wish this curse had never fallen over me. Because this seam is only unnoticable to me, not the lost faces and empty eyes of melancholy and forgetful love that glare warmly back at the confused face that emptily stares back. So for each step into a room, further down, my mind forgets the dooming dread of darkness and fear and confusion that consumes my mind after each door cracks open and engulfs me into a new, repeating and dark tune. But now, as the faces I stare back at in the dark corners of the rooms, all of them being different, stare back each time with less hope than last time. But to me, it's comfortingly warm every time dawn awakens as each doorknob creaks, and reveals another one of the same empty, dim, and wet rooms as before. I can tell that the eyes of the nostalgic yet melancholic faces who stare at me from the corner don’t want me to go home, but sadly it's going to have to end soon. I just learned to accept it, each dark room and the mellow tune. The static is going quiet, and the faces fade away each time a new room is opened. They’re sad. I went home. I took the faint melodies with me.

[@McKolton]

This album reminds me about my Grandpa who died to to dementia. Once I hear this album all of those memories come flooding back and I start to cry. It's not easy remembering him but I will always remember the time he took us on a fishing trip before be knew he had dementia. It was so peaceful. To this day I always listen to this album or everywhere at the end of time. For others who have someone who has dementia I know what it feels like and hope you and them the best of luck.

[@noebaby_8470]

I feel the exact same way. I can't listen to Libet Delay without thinking of my grandparents and I can't stop crying. I miss them so much. All we have are the good memories with them now. I hope you feel better.

[@McKolton]

@@noebaby_8470 Unfortunately last week the cat on my profile photo died due to old age. I have been feeling even worse. Now Everywhere at the End of Time is the one I listen to the most. It's more heartbreaking than this one and I feel like it symbolizes how it feels losing a loved one. Stage 1 is the calm before the storm. Stage 2 is when they die, with denial unraveling being the perfect song describing that feeling. Stage 3 is when you start to Cry and remember all the memories with mournful camaraderie. Stage 4 is when those memories start to fade. Stage 5 is when it starts to have negative effects on you. And finally stage 6, mainly the ending when you say goodbye to those memories forever and move on. May she rest in peace, and may you guys always remember the ones you lose forever.

[@noebaby_8470]

@@McKolton I'm so sorry to hear that. I have a cat too and can't even think about the day I will lose him. He or she will always be with you and we can only be grateful for the time we had with our loved ones and the memories we've made.

[@I_Love_Learning]

@@McKolton Sorry for your loss. I have lost a cat to cancer, it really is horrible. Best of luck with mourning. May she rest in peace.

[@BenadrylJackson]

"Senior Citizen Vaporwave" - Uncle Joe

[@morgboat744]

that sounds like something my Uncle Joe would say

[@newtclovers]

thanks joe biden

[@kamuy_1337]

boomerwave

[@gunweizard6125]

This sounds like what it’s like to stare into someones eyes and see absolutely nothing behind them.

[@iameternalsunshine]

you mean when people look into my eyes

[@gmodiscool14]

do you mean when you turn 23 years old? mobile.twitter.com/AndyL4nd/status/1214943512875192321

[@mysteryme6655]

Thanks for calling me out✓✓

[@LoneliestMartian]

That's what it's like to look a sociopath in the eyes.

[@_Cato_]

bubonic plague No they don't. Sociopaths are just better at mimicking emotions.

[@lullaby_gf5576]

I just finished the album, and man do I feel old; Tiny Gradations Of Loss, Fleeting Dreams, Libet’s Delay and All You Are Going To Want To Do Is Get Back There really enhance that. Edit: You can’t forget about Camaraderie at arms length.

[@Gardengap]

Gradations Of Arms Length?

[@objectanimatoruhhhh]

@@Gardengap No that's EATEOT

[@Gardengap]

@@objectanimatoruhhhh I know, but that’s probably where the title came from

[@objectanimatoruhhhh]

@@Gardengap yeah I think so

[@coolballer42]

if i still remembered this album and had one hour to live, i'd play this

[@opalizard]

It does feel like a lullaby for your final sleep

[@sadclownschool9358]

This sounds like the only station that comes in when you are five years old and your family is on a roadtrip through the mountains and you are half asleep but also half awake and have a vague idea of where you are but you are too lost in your own head to really care where that is

[@duenorth9]

Or yiu cannot move and you are paralized, but completly aware of what is going on. But lost.

[@nikoroo]

I love this.

[@inactive3468]

I’ve felt this before and you gave me nostalgic pain.

[@sadclownschool9358]

show show your welcome

[@thirdeyeunltd]

@@sadclownschool9358 your username gives me smiling joy

[@barackobama6370]

It's kinda trippy listening to this Album in 2020. It kinda makes it creepier considering it's almost 10 years old now. Now it's old music.

[@eveh8643]

im here from Solar Sands vIbE chEcK

[@dustypanschmexual5447]

@@eveh8643 same bud

[@yang3479]

I think this type of music is played in a lot of horror games and it scares me to actually think of it because I am listen to this at night paranoid...

[@anyelaicgb5693]

the actual music was made in 1920 so that makes it 100 years old they just edit the sound

[@whiteydiamond]

10 years ain't old pal

[@ridelikelightningcrashlike9782]

I listened to this during lockdown. I came back from travelling the world and was stuck in my childhood home for a year and a few months off and on. This ablum really made me feel that time had stopped and I had broken the world, like a bug in the code of a video game. Everything was just left of center. In the day I walked around the house and looked out into the countryside, in the night, I slept and fell through the world.

[@AceDaLoaf]

I had a nightmare where “All You Are Going To Want To Do Is Get Back There” was playing while there was a g-mod test between a prototype and a finish product. The two versions were put side to side, and then I tried flipping one over to see if the other version would do the same. The prototype moved, alright, but not the same horizontal flip the finished version did. Little by little the prototype turned to face me, the music only getting louder. Soon enough I realized where this was heading and I tried opening my eyes, and when I opened them a figure ran from my IRL closet speeding towards me. I know, a very elementary scare, but for the love of God I shut my eyes tight for dear life, and 30 seconds later I re-opened them. The music finally started fading away. As soon as I could get my phone I pulled this video up so I could comment this before I forget about the dream(I tend to do so.). If you read the entire thing, thank you.

[@Draczeqq]

I think this music is slowly killing me...

[@AceDaLoaf]

@@Draczeqq Thank you for making me remember this horrifying dream I had 😭

[@justinkianaalfredo6843]

It would be fun if the guy replied: your welcome​@@AceDaLoaf

[@AceDaLoaf]

@@justinkianaalfredo6843 real. Might make a visualisier of it when I get the time. It’s still so vivid in my mind.

[@Vileplume87]

@@AceDaLoaf wanna remember it again?? =D

[@rodolfobros]

Imagine being immortal. Everyone on earth dies, the planet is destroyed and you float in nothingness for eternity. This is the music that plays in your brain after all your thoughs stop existing and you stop being.

[@mokuu3313]

Rodolfo Esquivel thabk you for this

[@goenzky]

Eventually, he stopped thinking...

[@idavid8128]

​@@goenzky You beat me to it

[@yumyumduckduck]

DerivativeOfSenpi he still existed without memory, without conscious, staring into the abyss and a dark reaches if space with pale dead eyes. Time was only an illusion now beginning to fade as the music gets louder, louder, and louder.

[@a.ramponi6962]

@@goenzky what are you quoting?

[@lamestudiosinc418]

I love how there are comments from 2 months ago, a week ago, a number of years ago, and everywhere in between on the top comments page. Like this album has just transcended time itself.

[@tomasbrokeit5349]

Holy fuck

[@somethingwithbungalows]

5 years ago...

[@yang3479]

Things were meant to be this way

[@pengue1042]

a few hours ago

[@rodrigo9554]

Time doesn't exist here

[@thecarnew5334]

There are 2 reasons we are here: 1: you are a caretaker fan (like me) 2: you found this while exploring KZbin rabbit holes

[@BPprsents]

Im a caretaker fan

[@SubwayFootlongLover]

Both 🐜

[@psychic_digit]

It’s kinda weird to think that someone could’ve listened to this in 2011

[@rev_dude]

Have you ever been in a school at night? Where the usual sounds of laughing children and scratching pencils have been displaced with solid, oppressive quiet. Smiling faces in posters on the walls stare into empty rooms, stuffed with eerie silence. Dark hallways, flanked by black rooms that seem so large, so purposeless when not housing hundreds of students.

[@uxuubb6593]

no, but i think i now want to

[@benvincent6473]

this i understand

[@danieljamessh101]

Yes this I think about so much, once i found myself in school after hours at dark roaming the hallways felt quite liberating but also made me anti social af

[@RockyMarsh09]

I think you'd really enjoy the book "Im thinking of ending things"

[@rasati]

dude become a writer this gave me chills

[@reallygoodinc]

This reminds me of those vague memories people have from early childhood. You remember places, smells, sounds, blurry faceless figures of people who were once a major part of your life but now might as well not have existed. A birthday party in a strange, colourful room. A vast, bewildering out of town supermarket on a rainy Saturday. A garden patio on a warm summer evening, more youthful versions of your relatives chatting amongst themselves, using words you can't understand. It's unlikely you can recall any specific events, and you probably can't place them in any sort of context, but you remember that they happened. You remember how you felt. You remember *being* there. I really need to get some sleep lol

[@caydeofspaydes]

I don't remember a single thing of my childhood. It makes me question whether or not I even had one. And that's on having a traumatic condition that robbed me of my childhood. All that is left are feelings.

[@adaeverleigh9584]

Thoughtfulness the way home l poop

[@adaeverleigh9584]

It it

[@serval_catt]

@@adaeverleigh9584 ...?

[@100mvvari6]

@@serval_catt they spittin fax bro

[@sulumsphony66]

This album never fails to impress upon me the sensation of time moving about 100x faster than it should…

[@kingcrimson4133]

The transition from Mental Caverns - > Pared to the Minimal -> Mental Caverns -> Empty Bliss is really profound to me. It feels like a little subplot in the album about the dementia experiencer plunging helplessly into the depths of their own dissolution, only to resurface some short time later.

[@trooperjones4129]

Was hoping someone would catch this.

[@WhelpWasHere]

When you try to remember what game Kirby is from.

[@utkumat]

shit

[@marcocaloi8599]

lmao is that supposed to be a reference to The Caretaker? If so, that's kinda smart of you

[@fartman9223]

kirby dream leyland

[@almabartoli9302]

No joke, when I was a kid I didn't know what game Kirby was from, and i thought it was from Sonic somehow.

[@bleu8142]

Fuckin idiot he's from destiny

[@beckjanssens6504]

all the comments are like responses to a writing prompt.

[@teutoncross3817]

Beck Janssens Please describe in detail the sentiment of the crowd upon listening to the songs performed.

[@woaa455]

this song IS a writing prompt 😳

[@elydai2043]

Yeah and thats so cool

[@masterthg3137]

That or a drawing prompt

[@sungibatman1996]

Its an eerie feeling so its natural

[@seancake4048]

“All you are going to want to do is get back there”. I haven’t heard this album in about 6 years but those words have but ingrained in my head for so long. My dad was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s 4 years ago and is in a Alzheimer’s place where he has friends and stuff (he can remember things) I only visit him about once a month (he wasn’t the best to my family before he was divorced by my mom). But he seems like he doesn’t understand the passage of time that we see him. He just hugs us and we talk for half an hour before we (me and my brother) need to go I know Alzheimer’s is different from dementia but this album strikes some intense fears in me I can’t describe and I think it’s the same with a lot of other people. I’m scared that this will be my life. Maybe my dad will forget everything and maybe I’ll forget everything too. I asked my dad about one time we went to the Grand Canyon and he couldn’t remember This. Whenever I talk to him I feel like I’m talking to a shell of someone and is stuck in time. Maybe this will happen to me too and every kiss, punk show, improvisation, talent and life changing experience I have in my head will mean nothing to me. This album is something I need to hear right now because it feels like there is something that’s going to destroy my world but I don’t know what it is. I just try to live every day like it’s my last because there truly are no rules to this world

[@skarheist_8700]

so many years later i come back and the rock still smoking the ciggie

[@aloneinthelabyrinth]

Part of the subtle horror to this music is reading the comments section and finding identical observations written in 7,535 different ways.

[@satelliterover]

guess we are in this together, connected, but there is still a vastness between us we feel but cannot quite comprehend.

[@Bypolter94]

8502, mine is the 8502

[@ziko7190]

+1

[@FluidlyWillful]

Has anyone noticed? Don't you see? Everyone seems to be thinking pretty much sort of the same thing :P

[@ashleybyrd2015]

I mean, old ideas phrased differently can still be creative, take lo-fi and vaporwave for example.

[@browneburbs5377]

This is what the smell of an old book is like.

[@cozzy124]

oddly true

[@stonecol9]

that was shit

[@rockstarbonett886]

Ah yes. Smells like sound.

[@rowanmichael5640]

I mean, you right

[@autumnmissepic8498]

my god you foun a way to describe it!

[@paperpin1232]

The fade-out of the song Fleeting Dreams always hits me a little hard. It’s a very small detail that you barely even notice it. The volume lowering could possibly represent how you’re losing grip on your memory, until eventually… it slips away.

[@NefosG]

I'm a heavy drinker and I gotta say, the concept of "lower lucidity" makes a lot of sense with levels of drunkenness. A foggy mind with confusion like stage 4 is relatable.

[@sobot_]

Let’s all celebrate being recommended this.

[@SpicyMang0s]

Yes

[@Planklike]

Celebrating

[@davidlee219]

Celebrating

[@mar15115]

Hell yeah

[@Turboviikinki]

thank

[@sushi9549]

feels like going back to your childhood home only to realize everyone’s gone and you’re alone

[@FuzzyLunar]

This is why I‘m deeply scared to go back. I‘ve changed so much, and so must they have. What will I do if they did?

[@hairold5680]

Yo wait time travel

[@hairold5680]

You go back in time but it's just you, because everyone else has moved on into their own future

[@pusillirex]

@@FuzzyLunar I don't know, talk to them? What's the big deal

[@FuzzyLunar]

Pusilli Rex I moved away over 12 years ago when I was a child and everytime I called they made up some excuse of why they didn‘t have time and never got back to me. Also they‘re probs all in UNI now.

[@tobiasgreeeen]

I Feel As If I Might Be Vanishing is my favourite. Something so short and simple taken out of a beautiful song becoming something completely different when looped. The track gives me very specific feelings and vibes that no track ever does. The feeling I get from this is "what being lightheaded is like, translated into sound".

[@theducheneaux]

Fun fact: you will probably remember this album in the future, when you're old and in your death bed, while reflecting upon your entire life from start to finish.

[@ing_frantisek_mohykan]

where is the funny part?

[@ChickenFriedDryEraseMarkers]

I just hope I don't remember the rest of Everywhere At The End of Time.

[@yome6132]

ill be demented asf on my deathbed screaming my name chef i promise u im not thinking of this music fam

[@zoehardee8636]

I've thought about that a few times actually, that when I'm old and losing my sanity I might be humming these by then 150-year-old Russ Morgan records

[@Spthomas47]

It's kinda ruined me for these older style clips for a minute now. I just slip into a fuzzy nostalgia in a mindset I've not earned or reached. Turned 50 last month. Welp, let's see how my next quarter turns out...

[@papaidoceuteamamuito5975]

this feels like wanting to hug your mother but after she was already gone

[@somethingwithbungalows]

Oof.

[@bromomento5913]

*4*

[@FuzzyLunar]

I relate a lot ;;;

[@muskratman910]

Thanks Kim Jong Un, very cool.

[@artdecadepoet5554]

my mom is literally in the room next door but i feel like i miss her now...

[@Wulfjager]

some of these comments would make english teachers proud

[@ill8485]

A minority of thine comments would instil a sense of pride within their literate heart

[@thebrownmantapesthenewchan2206]

*Me, seeing a shit ton of deep comments below this one:*

[@definitelynotagenocider5204]

Shit ton of deep comments

[@geoffrey6000]

deep comment

[@ReeYoU.26]

Comment

[@felixu]

My grandpa died in 2023 just the July 4th (American Independence) actually I have 14 years. And he was as a father for me. My dad never been to me but my grandpa yes. While my family crying I was thinking so fast?... I thought until my 18 years old and you gone.. this album remember me of him and I remember the good times he died 72 years old. (Sorry my English is bad).

[@snowyy9129]

hey bro take care :(

[@gelubatir9794]

The Caretaker's ''An Empty Bliss Beyond This World'' from wikipedia - ''An Empty Bliss Beyond This World'' is the ninth studio album by the Caretaker, an ambient music project of English musician Leyland Kirby, released on 1 June 2011 through History Always Favours the Winners. The record is based on a study regarding people with Alzheimer's disease being able to remember music they listened to when they were younger, as well as where they were and how they felt listening to it. The album samples pre-World War II ballroom records Kirby bought in Brooklyn in December 2010. This theme of Alzheimer's in music would be greatly expanded upon through 2016 to 2019 through Kirby's final series of albums as The Caretaker, Everywhere at the End of Time. ''An Empty Bliss Beyond This World'' was the Caretaker's breakthrough album, garnering critical acclaim upon its release and earning several year-end accolades. Pitchfork has called it the 75th best album of the first half of the 2010s as well as the 14th best ambient album of all time. Concept - ''An Empty Bliss Beyond This World'' reflects, with broken sounds, the mind of an Alzheimer's patient who struggles to remember parts of their life. The record was based on a 2010 study about the ability of people with the disease to remember music from their time, as well as their context within the patient's life. The Caretaker project was inspired by the ballroom music in films such as Carnival of Souls (1962), The Shining (1980), and the television series Pennies from Heaven (1978), which drew Kirby to themes of memory loss: "Famously, people as they got older have started seeing dead people, people from the past, and that's their reality because the brain's misfiring. I'm very interested in these kinds of stories. Music's probably the last thing to go for a lot of people with advanced Alzheimer's." Critic Rowan Savage compared the album to Mark Z. Danielewski's novel House of Leaves (2000) due to its "endless and fearfully cavernous space (the ballroom) existing concealed by the deceptive limitations of familiar domesticity" represented with a deep resonant sound. Some tracks on An Empty Bliss appear twice but are sampled differently, such as the title track and "Mental Caverns Without Sunshine." Kirby explained this was done to give it a déjà vu vibe: "Immediately upon first listen, you’re already questioning where you have heard this song before." The second version of "Mental Caverns Without Sunshine" is only half as long as the first. According to Savage, the repetitive aspects of the album question the listener if "[their] sense of familiarity spring[s] from the loop[s] [themselves] or from the very patina that inheres in the scratchy turntable record as such". An Empty Bliss has retrofuturistic themes of disputes between the distant past and the envisioned future similar to Into Outer Space with Lucia Pamela (1969). Savage labeled the album a commentary on modern music that "coloni[zes]" and "dehistoricize[s]" works from the past. He compared the album to when Gary Numan sang "I'm Vera Lynn" on the track "War Songs." Describing "War Songs" as a "peculiar evocation of the 30s and 50s as vocodered through eerie 80s electro," Savage explained: It's as if Kirby, speaking to a postmodern generation steeped in Stone-cold revivalism [...] is asking: "You call that retro? This is retro" (but also, this is what retro is, and that may not be the comfortable appropriation you're familiar with). ''An Empty Bliss Beyond This World'' reflects, with broken sounds, the mind of an Alzheimer's patient who struggles to remember parts of their life. The record was based on a 2010 study about the ability of people with the disease to remember music from their time, as well as their context within the patient's life. The Caretaker project was inspired by the ballroom music in films such as Carnival of Souls (1962), The Shining (1980), and the television series Pennies from Heaven (1978), which drew Kirby to themes of memory loss: "Famously, people as they got older have started seeing dead people, people from the past, and that's their reality because the brain's misfiring. I'm very interested in these kinds of stories. Music's probably the last thing to go for a lot of people with advanced Alzheimer's." Track listing - Original release No. Title Length 1. "All You're Going to Want to Do Is Get Back There" 3:46 2. "Moments of Sufficient Lucidity" 3:47 3. "The Great Hidden Sea of the Unconscious" 3:02 4. "Libet's Delay" 3:26 5. "I Feel as If I Might Be Vanishing" 1:55 6. "An Empty Bliss Beyond This World" 4:19 7. "Bedded Deep in Long Term Memory" 1:48 8. "A Relationship with the Sublime" 3:36 9. "Mental Caverns Without Sunshine" 3:13 10. "Pared Back to the Minimal" 1:45 11. "Mental Caverns Without Sunshine" 1:35 12. "An Empty Bliss Beyond This World" 3:48 13. "Tiny Gradiations of Loss" 2:52 14. "Camaraderie at Arms Length" 4:45 15. "The Sublime Is Disappointingly Elusive" 1:44 Total length: 45:21

[@EidorbNotHere]

Nice one, thanks!🎉

[@gelubatir9794]

@@EidorbNotHere you are welcome, have a nice day

[@atmm577]

The first song has got a "feeling empty on a christmas eve" feeling for me

[@setsers1]

😠I fear that's how it's going to be next week, My Friend.😟

[@epicfish1361]

Well crap

[@bonthebunnycat667]

@@beebus44443 F Hope it gets better

[@zaranthropy]

Listening to this while being alone at Christmas night and this comment hit different in case you were curious, I was alone on Christmas Eve too.

[@Metroid-tc1by]

@@beebus44443 I would have felt empty if I wasn't reading some heartwarming fanfic

[@ohboy1113]

I feel guilty turning this music off, like I’m ignoring my grandpa reminiscing about something to me and if I’d only listened

[@droplsv]

This is the dream I have about my dad. We run errands together so he can use the carpool lane and I don’t even go in.

[@Ollimus]

Libet's Delay still sounds wonderful, love that track.

[@Niiiko895]

It’s crazy how The Caretaker can change a sample’s context and mood completely, for example: Layton And Johnstone’s Wedding Of The Painted Doll, the original sample sounds very happy and cheerful, like celebrating a grand and life changing event for someone, but here, something sounds like it’s lurking in the shadows, you’re in your bed and you hear something outside your room but you don’t know what it is, but you can barely hear faint voices from the other side of your door, kinda like the voices that play during the track

[@heiscomingg8870]

Just imagine a movie that uses The Caretaker's music to convey what the characters are feeling

[@derekconwaygd]

Dear lord if they actually nailed the atmosphere that would be the most heart wrenching movie imaginable Also nice mutahar pfp

[@volkovsky]

This would've done well on Netflix's Bly Manor if they took an entirely different route.

[@oof1374]

that would be so cool.

[@morejolli]

It's literally inspired by The Shining though.

[@setsers1]

The Pain, Man!

[@parkersaruga6948]

This feels like walking down a hallway with doors to your old memories, yet something is off in every room you open. Like someone's shirt is green instead of blue, or one person from the background is missing. And the farther the door is from the start, the more something is wrong. But even though you know something is off, you keep walking and opening doors.

[@ohhello2526]

S t o p

[@parkersaruga6948]

@@ohhello2526 hey, I'm not wrong, am I?

[@blazerivers3000]

That would make an amazing creepypasta

[@werisekk3]

You keep walking and opening doors because even though it's off, it is still _there_, and deep down you know you're running on borrowed time. If you don't open it now, you might not be able to do so tomorrow.

[@sourpuss5951]

@@blazerivers3000 Doesn't need to be. They just described how fucked up dementia is pretty well.

[@m1ggyy]

Holy shit the comments are back! I missed being here reading them all while chilling and dissociating in this music.

[@markcamacho8739]

This is what an age feels like. What stood as normal has become more or less than what once was. What was once valued becomes less or missed. The peak of the era over. A turn towards a new side approaches. Those who embrace it still take a toll. A world no longer made for the old.

[@ecvsio]

I still haven't fully accepted the fact that I exist and live in a cause and effect reality

[@disjointedhoudini]

oh don't worry! one day you won't :)

[@bruhsoundeffect2882]

We never will.

[@pounchoutz]

I've had this problem for the first 3-4 years of my 20s. It was a a paradox, especially because I studied physics. Rationally I knew cause and effect, but emotionally I didn't seem to really believe it. To me it felt like generations and generations of physicists have been blindly following Newton, even Einstein (he just changed how we thought about causation - but still causation) Anyway, I started to force myself to cause things to happen, this seemed to help a bit. One thing you can do is stand at a busy intersection as if you're going to cross. And watch every car hesitate to keep driving, and ultimately *make a decisions based on your presence*

[@MarkCrawfordmarcusrobur]

That never happened

[@2junieb]

@@disjointedhoudini this killed me lmaoo sjdjdk

[@bella_ciao4608]

I feel like a lot of these tracks and The Caretaker’s music as a whole can be summed up by the feeling of cleaning up after a birthday party, being happy that you had fun but still being sad that all your friends have left.

[@factoryman28]

It's more like that moment when you're 80 and you've lost all of your memories and no longer remember who you are.

[@Andresortega-nd2js]

Lego Yoda that’s more everywhere at the end of time

[@foxliasgriffinYT]

more of when you think about eternity

[@martinimate4336]

Lego Yoda wrong album

[@pandamana4744]

My god man.

[@carlosfelipa6828]

Escuchar esto es como recordar la paz de tu infancia y contrastarla con el presente. Una alegria sobrepasada por malas decisiones y decadencia. Es una tristeza algo dulce.

[@germojo]

I got a raid shadow legends ad before this which destroyed the whole mood

[@colinbutler5417]

I am SO SORRY😂

[@amelierainwater9464]

“LeT’s PLay RaiD sHadOw LeGenDs” no, let’s not.

[@viewaxian]

My mood was ruined by a screaming dude saying: ''iT iS rAiD tiMeEeEe'' NO! IT IS NOT! MATE YOUR A FULLY GROWN MAN STOP ASKING PEOPLE TO PLAY THIS SHAT GAME!

[@viewaxian]

@@germojo Same here. I don't even LIKE the game so I dunno why this is part of my 'Recommended ads-'

[@absentchronicler9063]

get adblocker

[@MemeMachine427]

One time I had a surgery and I wasn't anesthetized properly, so I was half awake during the procedure. I couldn't really feel anything except some pressure from the surgery. I was lying on my stomach with my face on a white pillow. I couldn't feel my body, and it felt like I was floating out of my body. I thought I had died at one point and felt very empty at one point. This music kind of reminds of what I felt in those moments. Reminiscing in memories, fading away, and numbness.

[@jadeblades]

that hit me hard, damn

[@Lil.Grandpa]

You're lucky you weren't fully aware. Some people are in that sort of awareness for hours, and can feel every cut and every needle going into bone.

[@decmcelarn3363]

Once I forgot about Shrek for a bit.

[@icatchacoldeasily9027]

@@Lil.Grandpa That's not entirely true. Surgeons can typically detect when situations like that happen due to a spike in the patients' heartbeat.

[@BroAnarchy]

That's ... An very intriguing experience. It does sound like you had an out of body experience, if just for a short moment. Was the experience scary for you or not so much, looking back at it?

[@eomex8379]

Hey look, comments are back.

[@ChrisPoindexter98]

right?!?

[@ampersandrue]

The Caretaker has really changed my view on music and has made me grateful for the small aspects of life, and life itself. An Empty Bliss is one of my favourite albums of all time, there is genuinely no lacklustre track on here. While Everywhere at the end of time is also a great album, this one speaks to me the most.

[@that1toad64]

Same, The Caretaker has actually helped me in life through therapy. The Caretaker's works are so special to me. I'm so invested that I bought a record player and the vinyl for this, EATEOT 1-3, and 4-6 are on the way. I'll get Patience (After Sebald) and Persistent Repetition of Phrases (if I can find it second hand) as well.

[@f5tornado831]

That's probably because everywhere at the end of time isn't really meant to be "enjoyed" for the most part. I dont think anyone enjoys listening to anything past 2 hours, but the effect is still great.

[@mattuiop]

Why is the boulder smoking? He might get lung cancer

[@marrakesh_3589]

Wait if it forgets he had lung cancer cus of dementia then it's cured

[@---mp8vy]

It’s not a stupid boulder!!! It’s a rock.

[@hamstersamiright8837]

@MShitposts MStatus what does this mean?

[@marz8386]

@@---mp8vy it's not a cigarette, it's a match.

[@monkey-yy8bk]

"Pioneers used to ride these things for miles!"