The Apollo label, home of brave ventures into ambience since the early 1990s, has housed such a prodigious array of talent that calling it a "subdivision" of parent label R&S almost feels like an ...

Update, 22/9/16: Kirby clarified in a statement to Pitchfork that it is the character of The Caretaker that has dementia, not himself. “I have given the project dementia,” he wrote. “It's a fitting ...

In honor of his 40th birthday, ambient musician James Leyland Kirby (also known as the Caretaker, the Stranger, and V/Vm) has released a 40-track album titled We Drink to Forget the Coming Storm, as ...

Ambient musician and producer James Leyland Kirby released An Empty Bliss Beyond This World in 2011 under his persona The Caretaker. On it, he examined old age, specifically the way the human brain, ...

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I've been told that ambient music like Leyland Kirby’s is a hard sell, but I'm past the point of caring. Because this is rather magnificent. It could be the only thing I hear after I die and I would ...

; it wasn’t listened to on the available vinyl record. Which is notable because one imagines a particularly surreal new element of irony that might come from listening to music so affected with hiss ...

Leyland Kirby – Intrigue & Stuff Vol. 1 [History Always Favours The Winners] James ‘Leyland’ Kirby ’s first release since his massive Sadly The Future Is Not What It Once Was triple album is a ...

Now that it’s December, Best of Lists Season is in full swing. If you’re already tired of seeing ones that have The War on Drugs at the top (or near it), you can always rely on UK website The Quietus ...