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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
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
HAFTW 003CD HAFTW 003CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
6/8/2010

2018 repress. Having already been chosen as one of The Wire magazine's top 10 albums of 2008, as well as featuring on numerous "end-of year" charts, The Caretaker's highly-acclaimed Persistent Repetition Of Phrases is finally made available on CD again -- this time on The Caretaker's own History Always Favours The Winners label. James Kirby's work as The Caretaker has always dealt with the suggestion of haunted memory and the obscuring of temporal motion, and this album makes that more explicit than ever, with titles that reference amnesia, Alzheimer's, past life regression and other such memory misfires and short circuits. Musically, this album might be compared to Philip Jeck's manipulated vinyl tracts, featuring similarly oceanic swells of crackle and dust, with faded pianos or big band sounds wafting wraith-like across the mix. After conjuring the sinister atmospherics of The Shining with his debut album Selected Memories From The Haunted Ballroom, The Caretaker has been chasing this idea of sound leaving its indelible mark on a space and time, so consequently these creepy, semi-dissolved musical passages sound no more tangible than shadows, and the album for the most part comes across as some sort of séance held via wax cylinder.