- Record Label: History Always Favours The Winners
- Release Date: Feb 14, 2012
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MojoMar 23, 2012Here Kirby lets the sad beauty of his source - Schubert's Winterreise - bleed through, as if summoning up the solitary ghosts of the German composer's most desolate work. [Apr 2012, p.91]
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Mar 5, 2012As one may ascertain, the world of the Caretaker is a potential rabbit hole of nostalgia, anxiety, and all manner of undisclosed obsessions, but a distinct sense of calm washes over the best of this material.
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Mar 1, 2012Patience (After Sebald) is an unnervingly quiet album.
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UncutFeb 14, 2012The Caretaker creates ambient music that doesn't merely settle in the background but is evocative of memory and loss. [Feb 2012, p.83]
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Feb 14, 2012This record collects the works of Austrian composer Franz Schubert and morphs them into a gloomy meditation on the sure, comforting absurdity of existence.
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Feb 14, 2012Patience is one of Kirby's most consistent and stylistically severe albums in recent memory, mostly solo piano with the occasional vocal thrown in.
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Feb 14, 2012Patience (After Sebald) succeeds as beautifully evocative music to accompany the documentary, as another distinctive entry in Kirby's Caretaker discography and as an inspired blending of different works that makes its own statement.
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Feb 14, 2012This music, so basic on one level, is both warm and cold, blackened by mortality and twinkling with life, somehow evoking the wonder and absurdity of existence itself.
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Feb 14, 2012The Caretaker certainly remains a fascinating and worthwhile project.
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The WireFeb 17, 2012The Caretaker's music works best as a static pattern amidst digital flux. [Feb 2012, p.56]
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