“Everywhere at the End of Time” by The Caretaker (James Leyland Kirby) is a monumental 6.5+ hour ambient series released in six stages (2016–2019), tracing Alzheimer's progression through decaying early 20th-century ballroom samples. It begins with gentle, nostalgic melodies that slowly unravel into distortion, fragmentation, chaos, drones, and near-total abstraction, evoking fading memories, confusion, horror, and post-awareness oblivion. Some songs you'll recognize from old horror clips online such as “Just A Burning Memory” or “Libet’s Delay,” while others bring a calm storm with them.

The music makes you somber, it drags you in with full ballroom songs and beautiful chimes before slowly drilling the static and messiness into your mind. “An Autumnal Equinox,” one of the latter songs of stage one, manages to make you start to truly feel a little nauseated as a sample of the sweet strings loops in your ears for almost three minutes, interlaced with static, loud blaring of drums and trumpets or just silence. 

Although, it's not that perfectly sickening, though it's just shy of seven hours I feel as though the progression was slightly rushed, as you pass through stages it feels like you missed a stage between one and two, stage one being mostly cheering yet ominous to stage two starting with an already debilitated mind filled with mostly static before clearing for stage three. “A Losing Battle Is Raging” begins stage two as a clash of static, radio talk and jarble, nowhere near “My Heart Will Stop In Joy,” the last stage 1 songs' lovely and slightly soothing tones.

The closest companion is “The Disintegration Loops” by William Basinski. Long-form ambient works using literal analog decay to mirror profound loss. Basinski's 1980s tape loops start with achingly beautiful nostalgic melodies that gradually fragment into silence and chaos over hours, offering the same quiet, devastating acceptance of impermanence (With added 9/11-era grief as that was the exact day the project was finished). Start with DLP (~1 hour) for the most direct parallel.

There is no true audience for this show, it's an experience for all to witness, not for people who aren't a huge classical fan I would say though. My thoughts on this are contradictory, on one side you watch this beautiful story take place before you and then on the other hand you remember that this is the slow, slow death of a  mind, and I felt empty when it ended. The final track ending in silence to almost, if not truly, represent the death of the world we had been listening to, as well as the person's final moments in the world, silence, panic, and fear. The Caretaker understood what was so heavy about its meaning and he ran with it, making you sick, uncomfortable, and all the way uncanny. If you ever wanna try to listen to the full 6 albums good luck, it's difficult to not get distracted, but it always manages to pull you back in again if you do. All in all listening to this made me feel unnerving things, but also pleasant feelings. I'd absolutely listen again (and I do), a solid 9.32 / 10 for the entire 6 albums.