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1-2 Weeks
01. THE CARETAKER - Lacunar Amnesia
02. THE CARETAKER - Persistent Repetition Of Phrases
03. THE CARETAKER - Rosy Retrospection
04. THE CARETAKER - Long Term (remote)
05. THE CARETAKER - Poor Enunciation
06. THE CARETAKER - Past Life Regression
07. THE CARETAKER - False Memory Syndrome
08. THE CARETAKER - Von Restorff Effect
09. THE CARETAKER - Unmasking Alzhiemer's
ARTIST
TITLE
Persistent Repetition Of Phrases
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
HAFTW 003LP HAFTW 003LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
9/8/2023

First re-press in a decade for The Caretaker's 2009 masterpiece, one of the earliest and most iconic releases on his label History Always Favours the Winners, and a true classic of the early 21st century. Spine shivers, all the way. Persistent Repetition Of Phrases was the follow-up to Leyland Kirby's 7CD boxset Theoretically Pure Anterograde Amnesia (2006), and a landmark on the path that ultimately led to the influential An empty bliss beyond this world and Everywhere at the End of Time albums. Beloved of departed cultural theorist Mark Fisher, The Caretaker's alchemic transformations of 78RPM shellacs have, over time, come to hold a unique place in underground and popular imaginations simultaneously. It's the sort of music that elicits strong feelings from gen Z as much as Janus-faced xennials, jaded gen X-ers and perhaps even your gran, in a way practically incomparable to any other records of this strange century so far. It's an album that transcends notions of ambient or even concrète, sharing a palpable uncanniness, on the cusp of soothing, melancholy and something deeply ineffable. An essential listening experience for anyone who prizes the capacity of music to transport across time and space, or more acutely impact your sense of self. Pour one out and drink in deeply.