>listen to this
>"hey this is pretty chill jazz"
>look it up
>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.[1] Some tracks on An Empty Bliss Beyond This World have another slightly-different version of it that appears later in the album and have the same name, such as the title track and “Mental Caverns Without Sunshine.”[11][5][12] 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."[5] The second version of "Mental Caverns Without Sunshine" is only half as long as the first version of the track on the LP.[11] An Empty Bliss Beyond This World has retrofuturistic themes of disputes between the distant past and the envisioned future similar to Into Outer Space with Lucia Pamela (1969).[13] Savage labeled the album a commentary on modern music that "coloni[zes]" and "dehistoricize[s]" works from the past.[1] He compared the album to when Gary Numan sang "I'm Vera Lynn" on the track "War Songs."[1] Describing "War Songs" as a "peculiar evocation of the 30s and 50s as vocodered through eerie 80s electro," Savage explained: Where [Numan] was content to tell, The Caretaker [...] has shown, and in doing so gone one better — he’s given us the shade of Lynn herself, while making apparent its ghostly, absent nature. 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).[1]
What he fuck?
He's the Guy Maddin of music
this album is such shit and the ways in which people try to justify its merit are sickening