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"The Caretaker has come to define a youth culture ravaged by unchecked mental health crises, economic disparity, looming climate catastrophe, and technological
by JPKab 5y ago
"The Caretaker has come to define a youth culture ravaged by unchecked mental health crises, economic disparity, looming climate catastrophe, and technological malevolence."
Music journalism is hilarious when you realize how full of shit modern music critics are.
The above comment is projecting all of this onto ambient music with no lyrics.
- cwyers 5y ago"Ambient musicians aren’t meant to become famous, and particularly Kirby, in his experimental deconstructions of old sampled ballroom music, is perhaps the last musician you would expect to gain any significant recognition." What's funny is... he isn't famous.
- smackeyacky 5y agoWhy does it have to have lyrics to convey anything? Ever heard "yackety sax" or "in the mood"? Duelling banjos, the duel of the fates, the theme from jaws? Its not a stretch to ascribe modern horror to old ballroom music if you have ever been to an old folks home. They are packed with faded visions of a future that never arrived and horrors you are guaranteed will.
- JPKab 5y agoI'm a huge fan of ambient music and have been since 1995 when I first heard Aphex Twin and Brian Eno. My point is that this author/critic has absolutely no idea what the musician was thinking when he created this music and he certainly doesn't really know why it rings true with it's fans. Maybe it's exactly why he says it rings true.... But he has absolutely no data or surveys or anything to back this up and he is just projecting his own viewpoints and those of a current cultural Zeitgeist. His review read like the parody Pitchfork review David Cross wrote.