Leyland Kirby

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Biography

James Leyland Kirby is the real name of The Caretaker, an artist formerly known as V/Vm. In recent years his tireless trawl through obsolete 78rpm discovered in a Stockport record shop have provided the source material for a ghostly new sound centred around that school of hauntology identified by Simon Reynolds. Since moving to Berlin over two years ago, Kirby has been exploring a sound beyond the mottled loops of his ‘Persistant Repetition Of Phrases’, seeking to encapsulate a deep feeling of loss and alienation.

Top Tracks

1	Polaroid	41
2	The Sound of Music Vanishing	13
3	When We Parted, My Heart Wanted To Die (Friedrichshain Memories)	12
4	Tonight Is the Last Night of the World	11
5	The Beauty of the Impending Tragedy of My Existence	10
6	And as I Sat Beside You I Felt the Great Sadness That Day	9
6	Sadly, the Future Is No Longer What It Was	9
6	Not as She Is Now But as She Appears in My Dreams	9
6	We All Won That Day, Sunshine	9
6	To the Place Between the Twilight and the Dawn	9
11	This Is the Story of Paradise Lost	8
11	And Nothing Comes Between the Sadness and the Scream	8
11	They Are All Dead, There Are No Skip At All	8
11	Stay Light, There Is a Rainbow a Coming	8
11	Not Even Nostalgia Is as Good as It Used to Be	8