We use cookies to personalize your experience and analyze traffic. You can opt out at any time.
A nostalgic, underground ambient artist.
The Caretaker is the project of Leyland James Kirby, whose music explores memory, nostalgia, dementia, and psychological decline through manipulated ballroom and jazz recordings. Best known for An Empty Bliss Beyond This World and Everywhere at the End of Time, the project has become a defining influence on internet culture surrounding liminal spaces and analog horror. Its haunting, degraded soundscapes have become synonymous with forgotten places, lost time, and the erosion of memory, establishing The Caretaker as one of the most influential projects in experimental ambient and hauntological music.
Get notified the moment The Caretaker announces a new show.
The Caretaker plays experimental dark ambient and hauntological music, utilizing degraded vintage ballroom and jazz recordings to explore themes of memory loss and nostalgia.
The project's acclaimed releases, such as Everywhere at the End of Time, famously simulate the psychological progression of dementia through decaying audio loops.
Follow The Caretaker on Mood.