I’m a latecomer to the wonder that is The Caretaker. This album, An Empty Bliss Beyond This World, was released in 2011, but it has been running in my background for much of 2019. It’s a haunting recording stitched together from old 78s and sounds like nothing so much as wandering room to room in the Overlook hotel. (Yes, The Shining is a pretty clear influence here.) The Caretaker is British producer James Leyland Kirby, and according to him this is part of a group of pieces inspired by the disorientation of Alzheimers. His project Everywhere at the End of Time was just released and, though I haven’t fully digested it, it seems just as eerily seductive.