The Caretaker – Everywhere At The End Of Time – Stage 5 (2018)

January 19, 2021

Welcome to hell. Another series of 4 20-minute-plus slabs of terrifying ambient noise from The Caretaker marks the next step into the hell of dementia. Stage 5 is easily the most aggressive, opening with what is more or less harsh noise; the musical memories from earlier stages are now mangled into nightmarish visions that bear zero resemblance to their original form, instead present themselves as a collage of frightening… shit. It’s just noise, and its horrible.

At over 80 minutes, Stage 5 is a challenge to sit down with headphones on and listen to all the way through, but it is worth it, if only to fully understand and appreciate the project that The Caretaker has set out on. I await, perhaps nervously, to get stuck into Stage 6.