Altered Zones

I'm pretty positive James Leyland Kirby's work ethic knows no bounds. In the wake of his Intrigue & Stuff vinyl series and his recently Zoned In LP as The Caretaker, An Empty Bliss Beyond This World, Kirby is dropping a new album on October 11th, Eager To Tear Apart The Stars on his History Always Favours The Winners imprint . Drawing inspiration from the ambient works of Roedelius and Harold Budd, Eager crafts landscapes of outer space: lonely and uninhabitable, but its magnitude sadly beautiful.

Until that drops, check out Nic Brown's music video for The Caretaker's "I Feel As If I Might Be Vanishing." Barely distinguishable images are weaved into muted waves of color; figures linger, remaining vague, seeming as though they could disappear at any second. The trademark Video Marsh aesthetic brings Kirby's vision of Alzheimer's-affected memory recollection to life. --Matt Sullivan, Altered Zones

The recently profiled Leyland Kirby, aka The Caretaker, has shared two previously unreleased tracks from the zoned in An Empty Bliss Beyond This World. The tracks, "Fleeting Dreams" and "The Story Is Lost," feature The Caretaker's signature dreamy yet menacing static sense of movement, alluding to warped and warbled sounds weathered from the past, churned from a dilapidated gramophone. --Jasmine Zhu, Altered Zones

MP3: The Caretaker: "Fleeting Dreams"

MP3: The Caretaker: "The Story Is Lost"

An Empty Bliss Beyond This World is out now on Kirby's own History Always Favours The Winners imprint, and is available from Forced Exposure

Charles Griffin Gibson sent us his music video for a new song from James Leyland Kirby's latest offering as The Caretaker, in which various cutscenes of owls are sequenced beneath another transluscent, ethereal owl. The song's three-chord piano sample sounds like something taken straight from Debussy or Satie as flickering hiss cutting in and out while drifing from left to right in your headphones. Sublime. --Ric Leichtung, Altered Zones

You can grab The Caretaker's latest, An Empty Bliss Beyond This World, from Forced Exposure or Boomkat, courtesy of Kirby's own label, History Always Favours The Winners

--Previously

MP3: The Caretaker: "Tiny Gradiations of Loss"