Altered Zones

I'm pretty positive James Leyland Kirby's work ethic knows no bounds. In the wake of his Intrigue & Stuff vinyl series and his recently Zoned In LP as The Caretaker, An Empty Bliss Beyond This World, Kirby is dropping a new album on October 11th, Eager To Tear Apart The Stars on his History Always Favours The Winners imprint . Drawing inspiration from the ambient works of Roedelius and Harold Budd, Eager crafts landscapes of outer space: lonely and uninhabitable, but its magnitude sadly beautiful.

Until that drops, check out Nic Brown's music video for The Caretaker's "I Feel As If I Might Be Vanishing." Barely distinguishable images are weaved into muted waves of color; figures linger, remaining vague, seeming as though they could disappear at any second. The trademark Video Marsh aesthetic brings Kirby's vision of Alzheimer's-affected memory recollection to life. --Matt Sullivan, Altered Zones