Everywhere at the End of Time (Main)

Everywhere at the End of Time (commonly abbreviated as EATEOT and stylized as Everywhere at the end of time) is a series of six albums by The Caretaker, beginning in September of 2016 and ending in March of 2019. Each album corresponds to a stage a person goes through when experiencing dementia, more specifically Alzheimer's. The series was made as a conclusion to the Caretaker project, with Leyland Kirby "diagnosing" the Caretaker with dementia to kill it off. The series has 50 tracks overall, costing £5 GBP on Bandcamp.

While there are 7 officially recognized stages of dementia, only 6 stages have albums in EATEOT. This is because the first stage, Stage 0, is recognized as having no symptoms, making it almost indistinguishable from regular music.

On the same day that Stage 6 of the project was released (March 14, 2019), an album called Everywhere, an empty bliss was released, which contains scrapped and unused songs from EATEOT.

Stage 1 (A+B)
Main article: Everywhere at the end of time - Stage 1

Stage 1 of the project was released in September of 2016, with Leyland Kirby announcing the gradual end to the Caretaker. It begins with the track It's just a burning memory, which is the first usage of the Heartaches sample. There are 6 tracks on both the A-side and B-side of the album, totaling at 12 songs. The album concludes with My heart will stop in joy, a cheerful track of blissful unawareness. The music sounds very close to the original samples, with little distortion. The static is also generally quiet and calm.

Stage 2 (C+D)
Main article: Everywhere at the end of time - Stage 2

Stage 2 was released in April of 2017. It begins with the track A losing battle is raging, which contains the first examples of drones, slowly drowning out the music. The tracks in Stage 2 are more distorted and stretched than in Stage 1, and get more intensely distorted over time. However, they are still relatively calm and recognizable, with some exceptions (e.g. Glimpses of hope in trying times). There are 5 tracks on both the C-side and D-side of the album, coming to a total of 10 songs. It concludes with The way ahead feels lonely, signifying that The Caretaker knows what is to come.

Stage 3 (E+F)
Main article: Everywhere at the end of time - Stage 3

Stage 3 was released in September of 2017. It begins with the track Back there Benjamin, which is a highly distorted version of Goodnight, My Beautiful. Tracks here become more distorted and choppy than ever before, with ambient tones and violent static rising up. The track titles are mashed track titles from Stages 1 and 2, as well as An empty bliss beyond this World. (For example, To the minimal great hidden uses AEBBTW track names of Pared back to the minimal and The great hidden sea of the unconscious.) Despite all this increasing degradation, some melodies are still generally recognizable (with many exceptions). There are 8 tracks on both the E-side and F-side of the album, coming to a total of 16 tracks - the most out of any EATEOT album. It concludes with Mournful cameraderie, which uses a sample of Heartaches, now covered by ambient drones and chopped up nearly beyond recognition.

Stage 4 (G+H+I+J)
Main article: Everywhere at the end of time - Stage 4

Stage 4 was released in April of 2018 as the first of the Post-Awareness albums. The album starts with Stage 4 Post Awareness Confusions, with song names being more clinical, as if The Caretaker is too lost to properly name anything anymore. The musical flow fades away into chopped up notes and ambient drones, signifying decreasing ability to recognize anything. Each side of the record only consists of one track with multiple sections. Side I of the record, Stage 4 Temporary Bliss State, is notable for having a somewhat recognizable melody (Bewildered in other eyes from Stage 3), albeit extremely distorted. It concludes with Section D of Side J of the record Stage 4 Post Awareness Confusions, notably for being unusually calm.

Stage 5 (K+L+M+N)
Main article: Everywhere at the end of time - Stage 5

Stage 5 was released in September of 2018 as the second of the Post-Awareness albums. It begins with Stage 5 Advanced plaque entanglements, a far more extreme and distorted version of a Stage 4 track. The tracks are marginally longer than in Stage 4, maintaining the same "one track per side" style and medical titles as Stage 4. The last two sides, Stage 5 Synapse retrogenesis (a theory of reverse neurodegeneration) and Stage 5 Sudden time regression into isolation, take on a far less chaotic and more ambient tone, although static is still heavily prevalent in the two. The album ends with an isolated drone, which is quiet compared to the rest of the album, carrying on to a lonelier Stage 6.

Stage 6 (O+P+Q+R)
Main article: Everywhere at the end of time - Stage 6

Stage 6 was released in March of 2019. It is the third and final Post-Awareness album, the final album of EATEOT overall, and the last official Caretaker release (if both versions of Everywhere, an empty bliss are ignored). It has the same side pattern as the last two albums, however the titles take on a more emotional approach. It opens with Stage 6 A confusion so thick you forget forgetting, containing long walls of drones and faint tunes. The music here has been reduced to nothing but ambient drones, with even the static eventually disappearing. No melodies are clearly recognizable throughout most of the album, with many songs being very slowed down and faint. The final track, Stage 6 Place in the World fades away, transitions from an ambient drone to a long church organ lasting approximately 9 minutes. The organ then suddenly cuts away to the sound of a record needle, and a mostly clear tune plays for around 7 minutes, theorized to represent either death or terminal lucidity. It uses the same sample as Friends past reunited from Selected Memories From The Haunted Ballroom and A stairway to the stars. The 20 year-long project concludes with a minute of silence, which represents a period of quiet during funerals in respect for the dead person.