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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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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Sean Trane Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2024 at 16:48
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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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote A Crimson Mellotron Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 hours 54 minutes ago at 02:33
I am thinking Art Zoyd's music or Tangerine Dream's early releases, especially 'Zeit'.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Zeph Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 hours 15 minutes ago at 03:12
The first thing that popped into my head was Devil Doll.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Mirakaze Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 hours 35 minutes ago at 07:52
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: 17 hours 30 minutes ago 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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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote verslibre Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14 hours 24 minutes ago at 11:03
For eerie, as opposed to creepy, I'll go with the time-honored classic, Rubycon by Tangerine Dream.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote ThyroidGlands Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14 hours 8 minutes ago at 11:19
Any album by Present. Especially "Le Poison..."
Les Morts vont Vite by Shub-Niggurath.
Delìrium Cordìa by Fantômas.
Bloody bloody racket and rumpus
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Logan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 hours 47 minutes ago at 11:40
The first to come to my mind is Mica Levi's Under the Skin soundtrack.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote mellotronwave Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 9 hours 41 minutes ago at 15:46
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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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Grumpyprogfan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 8 hours 2 minutes ago at 17:25
Yugen - Iridule

This tune creeps me out.

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