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Artist:	KIRBY, LEYLAND
Title:	Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was
Label:	HISTORY ALWAYS FAVOURS THE WINNERS (UK)
Format:	3CD
Price:	$23.50
Catalog #:	HAFTW 001CD

These pieces are the first released by The Caretaker's James Kirby under his own name and are the result of an intense period of production aimed at encapsulating a deep feeling of loss and alienation. What started as a concept for a simple single album soon turned into a double-album, then into a double double-album before finally ending up as a triple-double- vinyl album and triple CD soundtrack. As James Leyland Kirby himself describes it: "Here we stand, 20 years on from the first CD, and our optimism has gradually been eroded away collectively. "Tomorrow's World" never came. We are lost and isolated, many of us living our lives through social networks as we try to make sense of it all, becoming voyeurs, not active participants. Documenting everything. No mystery. Everything laid bare for all to see." Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was is the soundtrack to a world in decline, the heroism of modern life, a document of loss, an essay in gloom, delivered with a brutally honest appreciation of the pitiful truth. Time-worn, ambient drone-hauntology.

Artist:	KIRBY, LEYLAND
Title:	When We Parted My Heart Wanted To Die
Label:	HISTORY ALWAYS FAVOURS THE WINNERS (UK)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$23.50
Catalog #:	HAFTW 001LP

Previously released on CD as part of a 3CD package, this is the first of three double vinyl editions of When We Parted My Heart Wanted To Die, Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was, and Memories Live Longer Than Dreams. These pieces are the first released by UK to Berlin transplant The Caretaker's James Kirby under his own name, and are the result of an intense period of production aimed at encapsulating a deep feeling of loss and alienation. This is the soundtrack to a world in decline, the heroism of modern life, a document of loss, an essay in gloom, delivered with a brutally honest appreciation of the pitiful truth. Time-worn, ambient drone-hauntology.

Artist:	KIRBY, LEYLAND
Title:	Memories Live Longer Than Dreams
Label:	HISTORY ALWAYS FAVOURS THE WINNERS (UK)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$23.50
Catalog #:	HAFTW 007LP

Previously released on CD as part of a 3CD package, this is the third of the three 2LP editions of When We Parted My Heart Wanted To Die series. The final volume in this limited edition brings proceedings to a harrowing, moving close. A sense of nostalgia, introspection and loss seeps through every pore of these seven long pieces, starting with "Memories Live Longer Than Dreams," a blue-hued piano piece that conjures an old vinyl pressing, spinning ever-so-slightly off-center for an added sense of wooziness and alienation. "A Longing To Be Absorbed..." comes next and employs a radically-altered palette. Layered drones and distorted crescendos somehow sound like Yellow Swans and Vangelis battling it out for supremacy over 13 minutes of immense, visceral music. "Don't Sleep I'm Not What I Seem, I'm A Very Quiet Storm" is a 14-minute piano treatment that's at once deeply beautiful and somehow strangely disturbing -- evoking long-submerged memories. A fitting end to this substantial, important body of work. Featuring artwork by Ivan Seal, and beautifully mastered at Berlin's Dubplates & Mastering.

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