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    Posted: December 19 2024 at 16:35
Eerie albums are always curious, they evoke a certain liminal feeling in oneself, none More so than Everywhere at the End of Time.

Everhwere At The End of Time is a project by The Caretaker, he discovered in the early 2000s that if you run old tapes, they'll slowly decay. So, he decided to do this with old ballroom music from the 1940s, thus creating a very liminal atmosphere. Each album slowly decays from slightly crackly old ballroom music to a wall of white sound. The series of albums is supposed to give the feeling of what it's like having dementia.

Are there any albums (or series of albums) you've heard that evoke a similar feeling?
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Shub-Niggurath - their first two albums (haven't heard the rest)


but it's soooo gloomy & eerie that it's difficult to take their music seriously, which of course kind of ruins the intent.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote AFlowerKingCrimson Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2024 at 19:14
I don't know if I've heard many albums that qualify as eerie but I suppose First Utterance by Comus comes close. To me that's more wacked out though. Maybe some early VDGG qualifies or maybe the Devil's Triangle by KC? Eerie doesn't seem to fit very well for most of the music I've heard. I suppose it would have to some soundtrack stuff and I haven't really heard much Goblin yet.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote richardh Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2024 at 23:40
It's going to be an electronic music soundtrack of some sort for a horror film I guess. Songwise the theme tune to the excellent MGM series From would count for me.

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I am thinking Art Zoyd's music or Tangerine Dream's early releases, especially 'Zeit'.
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The first thing that popped into my head was Devil Doll.
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Originally posted by Frets N Worries Frets N Worries wrote:


Everhwere At The End of Time is a project by The Caretaker, he discovered in the early 2000s that if you run old tapes, they'll slowly decay. So, he decided to do this with old ballroom music from the 1940s, thus creating a very liminal atmosphere. Each album slowly decays from slightly crackly old ballroom music to a wall of white sound. The series of albums is supposed to give the feeling of what it's like having dementia.
I concur with this pick. Nothing else comes close to this for me
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote MikeEnRegalia Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 20 2024 at 07:57
Here's something from this year, in fact one of the offical top 25 releases of 2024 at RYM (albeit at #23):
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For eerie, as opposed to creepy, I'll go with the time-honored classic, Rubycon by Tangerine Dream.
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Any album by Present. Especially "Le Poison..."
Les Morts vont Vite by Shub-Niggurath.
Delėrium Cordėa by Fantômas.
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The first to come to my mind is Mica Levi's Under the Skin soundtrack.

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I think lot of VDGG/Hammill songs would fit the theme
In the black room PH Chameleon Lp
A Louse is not a home from PH Silent corner Lp
Got from PH In camera LP
Necromancer VDGG 1st LP
Arrow : VDGG Godbluff
A Plague of lighthouse keeper from VDGG Pawn hearts

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King Crimson : Devil's triangle from In the Wake of Poseidon
Genesis : The waiting from ( aka the evil jam when executed live) from TLLDOB



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Yugen - Iridule

This tune creeps me out.

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Originally posted by A Crimson Mellotron A Crimson Mellotron wrote:

I am thinking Art Zoyd's music or Tangerine Dream's early releases, especially 'Zeit'.


Indeed, some of those early Krautrock are gloomy, like Popol Vuh's debut.

And in a certain sense, Univers Zero and Present are also quite "out there", but


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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Originally posted by A Crimson Mellotron A Crimson Mellotron wrote:

I am thinking Art Zoyd's music or Tangerine Dream's early releases, especially 'Zeit'.


Indeed, some of those early Krautrock are gloomy, like Popol Vuh's debut.

And in a certain sense, Univers Zero and Present are also quite "out there", but
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I have never thought of them as gloomy, or weird, or eerie. In my ears, they were experimental albums, and they kinda gave us a feel and a touch that was foreign to our ear-experience, but that is not a reason for any of these things to be eerie ... I consider folks that use bizarre covers, and then create bizarre lyrics and often a lot of noise, as being way more "eerie" that a lot of experimental things.

There might be one, that is special in its own way, and when you hear it off a CD without any visuals, you get one idea or two ... and later when you see the film, the stuff kinda crawls in your skin ... and it isn't about anything, except that we have no idea where it is going, and you and I ae out in the middle of nowhere! The film is "The Stalker" ... 

In general, the commercial side of music does not bode well for a lot of that "eerie" stuff as it throws fans off and away ... and that defeats the point of even having it. The ones I don't like are the very obvious fake ones, gorging themselves off youngsters money ... and that is not only "eerie", it is also "malicious" ... and at time, probably irresponsible.

The hard/harshest part is that we do not know, or understand the work ... and you can't tell if the "eerie" is from the work, or from your own perception feeling alienated from it ... that's 2 very different things to consider. Likewise, the use of electronics in one film way back when made it scary because it was so different and off anything we knew or felt ... but the film makers made do in that film with light touches so we would not be scared senseless ... the robot made drinks for folks ... !!! All of a sudden the description of the whole place of the Krell's work, by that time is not scary or eerie, it is .... wow ... that's nuts! By that time you are already with the film and appreciated the Sci-Fi side of it.

The bad side of things for me is the stuff that hurts and kills ... religion, drugs, ugly politics ... but within the arts, I'm not sure that folks are in it to scare anyone, unless your middle name is Giger, but I wonder how much of that art was for shock, and/or something else altogether. It might have meant something to a different set of folks, but I'm not sure that it does the same for the fans.

I don't consider the art work, btw, on par with the music and lyrics of the work btw, and that's a bit on the strange side for me ... a concept and something else to trip the idea ... nice to have that art on the cover, but I think it was misguided. I don't think the album would have sold less without that cover.


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Quite possibly Coven's debut self titled album from 1969 - it certainly sends shivers down the spine with every listen.
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Wire’s 154 is creepy in a good way.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote I prophesy disaster Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14 hours 23 minutes ago at 04:37
Early VdGG music is quite eerie in parts, though I wouldn't describe VdGG music as eerie in general. I think the eerie parts are highlights and is why I generally prefer the earlier (pre-Godbluff) VdGG music.
 

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Originally posted by I prophesy disaster I prophesy disaster wrote:

Early VdGG music is quite eerie in parts, though I wouldn't describe VdGG music as eerie in general. I think the eerie parts are highlights and is why I generally prefer the earlier (pre-Godbluff) VdGG music.
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Hi,

I'm not sure it was eerie for me at all ... almost all of PH for me, was "very personal" and the "anger" was always a response to thing that PH might have felt bad about ... "genuflection in church" some moments in that album are much more on the eerie side ... it's like he knows someone that was abused in church ... and a lot of the anger comes out in that album ... but I don't find "anger" eerie at all ... it's an emotion that expresses how you feel ... it can have bed results, of course, but in general, in the arts, most anger is well placed, though in Hollywood, the anger is always set to malicious and some ketchup!

All in all I look at PH as a poet, and the emotions within ... and Roy Harper is the same thing ... he has his angers, and sometimes it comes off as eerie, but in the end, they boh return to the poetry and the flow of the work.
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