The eleventh and final recording by the Caretaker, an alias of English electronic musician Leyland
Kirby, with artwork by
Ivan Seal. Released between
2016 and
2019, its
six studio albums, with a total of 50 songs spanning 6 hours and 30 minutes, use degrading loops of sampled ballroom
music to portray the progression of Alzheimer's disease. Described by many listeners as "uncanny," "unsettling," and "saddening" by newer listeners, and with experienced listeners praising its ambience and genius, the work samples
music ranging from the 1920s to the 1940s with an emphasis on English ballroom
music, specifically various covers of "Heartaches" by Al Bowlly among others. Each studio album of the work represents a different one of the seven stages of Alzheimer's, each being offset by
one. (e.g. Stage
1 of the work represents Stage 2 of Alzheimer's, Stage 3 represents Stage 4, Stage 6 represents Stage 7, etc.) The first stage is not represented in the work as it has no discernible symptoms in sufferers. There is a discernible difference between Stages
1-3 of the work and Stages 4-6, also known as the "Post Awareness Stages," which aim to portray the user's progression to a more vegetative state by layering multiple songs over
one another, sometimes up to 17 layers, with some stretches of songs using very few samples and therefore making for an ambient, peaceful effect.
Everywhere at the end of time's ambience in Stages
4-6 helped me to concentrate while applying for scholarships, especially the end of J1 Stage 4 Post awareness confusions.
Everywhere at the end of time Stage 3 is the perfect soundtrack for the Deep Dark biome in
Minecraft; it's so much more terrifying for the Warden to be chasing you while you have extremely distorted ballroom
music playing in your ear at full volume!
I've tried telling you a thousand times: I
don't want to hear Everywhere at the end of time because it's just too disturbing!
