The whole album is inspired by the notion that music can aid Alzheimer's patients to recover lost memories and that memories are never lost - they just need to be put back into a particular context to make them visible again. The music contained on this album sounds like half-remembered phrases and the murk and decay that distorts each sample reminds you of the murk that fills your mind when you are struggling to remember something.
This record, as with the previous Caretaker releases, resonates with emotion and drains you with the utter sadness that it exudes. It also unsettles many listeners - the eerie sounds that poke through sound like a phantom gramophone in a haunted ballroom (which, of course, is entirely the point - The Caretaker name being taken from the movie version of The Shining, particularly the ballroom sequence) and works very badly as low level ambiance, people stop talking and try to concentrate on the sounds they are experiencing.
And tell you to turn it up.
Which is rare in my house.
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