If you want an album that is the musical representation of melancholy. This is your 40 minute masterpiece. ‘Everywhere at the end of time was made by Leyland Jane Kirby, under the alias of ‘The CareTaker’. He has made this time of music before with his 2011 ‘An Empty Bliss Beyond This World’ freshman project under the alias. But that album compared to this is like comparing an old mixtape to a thought out and long creative process of an album. This album is supposed to immerse you into the stages of the mental illnesses of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Hence the name ‘Everywhere at the End of Time’ is a meaning of gradual decay of, well, Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. And that’s just the name ladies and Gentlemen. This album is just one part out of the six that The Caretaker would make with his journey starting with the first installment in 2016, and wrapping it up in 2019, to ‘kill off’ the alias and move on to other musical projects he looked to go after that didn’t include the CareTaker name. THE CONTENTS: This album plays for about 41 minutes, with 12 tracks to listen through. Throughout the project is a very consistent playlist of songs that hover around the same tune and genre: a eree and ambient flipped ballroom music from the 30s and 40s. The CareTaker took actual tracks from those time periods, but some static over them, maybe pitch it down, add some different mixing, and loop 10-30 second intervals of those tracks. And while that may seem like an easy and not to that impressive to the viewer. First, don’t knock it till you try it, and secondly, The CareTaker isn’t just taking the tracks and maybe just making them sound creepier. The sound of the project sounds like these tracks were MEANT to sound like this ambient ballroom experience, something you’d hear crackling on your father’s vinyl player back in the 60s or 70s. Not all of us lived in that time period (me aswell), but with how nostalgic the project sounds with the melancholy, the ballroom sample flips, the crackling, the somewhat even haunting undertone, its the perfect recipe to be immersed. There’s a lot more going on than just a looping lick for 3 minutes. The project has 2 sides, not much changes to the overall sound, it stays extremely consistent - another factor to how immersive this is, it truly sound like he made it (which you will see down the road of the series, certain tracks truly composed by him, like piano covers of these exact songs). But with this 2 sides of this project are 2 sets of memories. Let’s look at this in the eyes of an old person (the average Alzheimer’s or dementia patient) with their memories. They’re untouched, intact, sweet little callbacks throughout the decades of life they’ve floated through. They don’t remember a whole lot, just those little moments ( what the loops represent). The memories of an elder will of course might be a little worn out, maybe scratched up (the crackling). And of course of the nostalgic time period at the time when they lived (the 30s and 40s). All of this is the base of a long story of the dementia coming in, not to smash it all down, to slowly overtime deteriorate each memory. In the later installments you will hear literal lemotifs to these exact 12 tracks. Becoming more warped, maybe in a different cover to show how the elder is feeling about those memories as others start to slip away slowly, or straight up bits and pieces appearing in other tracks with maybe new memories or a culmination of ideas all scrambled because of the disease making everything into absolute depressing chaos. The tracks names play a very important role aswell, most of them very clever and well thought titles, like ‘My heart will stop in joy’ representing that the elder - at this point in time - will be forever happy of the memories they spent on earth. Even if it will slowly be stripped away from them. Or ‘Things are beautiful and transient’ as they are aware of their sickness. And aware of how their view on life will change forever and won’t last long. But yet still taking it as a gift to live with all of their precious moments still intact. CONCLUSION. The album is amazing. Might not be for everyone. But in my opinion is a must try experience. Even if you don’t look to continue the 6 part album series, as it does get more serious and less about the nostalgia and more of the deterioration of the Alzheimer’s and dementia to the projects lifespan. If you want something experimental, old music from the early 20th century. And extremely nostalgic and melancholy? Don’t be afraid to try this out.