Day 64 of reviewing every Caretaker Project: Everywhere At The End of Time. EATEOT was a series exploring the gradual decline and horrors of Dementia. It's split into 6 Stages. Stage 1: The most like a daydream, the songs are clear and coherent, with little static. A lot of them have that "Happy but off" feeling. A few strong examples of this are A5, B3, and B6. Stage 2: A realization that there is something wrong and strong denial to accept that. The songs are more depressing and have a little more static. It's one of the weaker stages but it has the most devastating songs in my opinion like basically every Side D song and C5. Edit: Changed my mind on Stage 2, quite literally every song in this stage is perfect. I don't really get why some people go "erm, this is the weak point of the album!" Like, no? Stage 3: The calm before the storm. The songs musical flows are more entangled and messed up with more static. Some songs towards the end are genuinely messed up and less recognizable than before. Songs like E1, E2, E4, E6, and E8 are all noticably messed up but are still definitely songs. Songs like E3, E5, E7, F1, F2 F3, F5, and F6 are more empty and have less musical notes (or whatever you'd call it). Songs like F4, F7, and F8 are all extremely messed up and start to lose what makes them songs. They sound more like the Post Awareness Confusions stages. Post Awareness Stage 4: The songs are more chaotic than before and shift in flow a lot more inconsistently and randomly. This stage has some really good moments like the Hell Sirens/Sundown Syndrome and the Temporary Bliss State. The ending to this stage is one of the best ending tracks to any of the stages. Post Awareness Stage 5: This stage is no longer songs and is more so chaotic hellish noises in the first half, and white noisy sounds in the second half. K1 is a great opening track, it's a great transition into a chaotic hell that is Stage 5. "Was it a dream?" Aka the first clarity moment is a powerful moment that hits you in the gut hard. The second clarity moment is also great, if not, better than "Was it a dream?" because the gradual build up to it and the gradual build "down" back Into chaos is more clear and apparent. The Mandolin Segment at the end is my top favorite in Stage 5 however. It just sounds like an ending to Stage 5, but unfortunately, it's not. It's only the beginning of the stage truly kicking in. Post Awareness Stage 6: The final stage in this album is a jarringly powerful stage (Like the rest of the album but even more so) The songs are all gone, there is only white noise and occasional notes. This leads to a depressing finale where there is one last real song (Which is either Terminal Lucidity or a Funeral depending on what you interpret it as) before the patient is laid to rest in one final minute, signalling death. Overall, EATEOT is a masterpiece, there is no denying that. I'd highly recommend listening to it unless you're sensitive to materials like these. I did spoil a few moments but there's still the entire SIX AND A HALF HOURS to listen to on Spotify (I think it's funny how this is casually on Spotify as if it was a normal album). There is also a lot of fan projects on this album. Obviously I'm not going to talk about them because they are completely different albums but one I recommend is "EATEOT With Voices" which is pretty much what the title says. It's the same album but with voices, made by @DanteTimberwolf. They made three remakes for the first three stages but another YouTuber finished the rest @LatteCookieEATEOTWV and I think that one is pretty underrated. Another one I'd strongly recommend is the (several) Visual remakes of the album that (you guessed it) try to give Visuals to the sound. One I'd recommend is one of the most popular ones. (Idk what it's called but just know that it's the "one of the most popular" ones." which should be by @R9955n1). There's another pretty underrated visual project by @ElectroWalker86 and while I think the execution on earlier stages could be better, the PA Stages are actually really well done imo. Finally, another fan project I'd recommend is Everywhere in the beginning of nowhere (which has a couple of different versions) by @thecarebear2360 which, by the way, is a 14 YEAR OLD or so and it's still well made. Btw I haven't listened to any of these projects in full but I have seen glimpses and I did listen to a big portion of With Voices (up to Stage 4, I think I1 is where I stopped). This is barely scratching the surface btw, there are so many more. Some for individual songs or stages and some for the entire album. For Example, there's an extremely underrated video by @Minimimim that is supposed to replicate how My Heart Will Stop In Joy would sound in other songs. It's a remake of someone else's video btw but I forgot their name. I'd describe EATEOT as a terrible masterpiece overall. Something unbelievably powerful and well made, but unlike other masterpieces (like Hawaii Part 2 or something), this is meant to break you, not to comfort you. It's like that one quote, "Art is meant to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable."
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Day 64 of reviewing every Caretaker Project: Everywhere At The End of Time.
EATEOT was a series exploring the gradual decline and horrors of Dementia. It's split into 6 Stages.
Stage 1: The most like a daydream, the songs are clear and coherent, with little static. A lot of them have that "Happy but off" feeling. A few strong examples of this are A5, B3, and B6.
Stage 2: A realization that there is something wrong and strong denial to accept that. The songs are more depressing and have a little more static. It's one of the weaker stages but it has the most devastating songs in my opinion like basically every Side D song and C5.
Edit: Changed my mind on Stage 2, quite literally every song in this stage is perfect. I don't really get why some people go "erm, this is the weak point of the album!" Like, no?
Stage 3: The calm before the storm. The songs musical flows are more entangled and messed up with more static. Some songs towards the end are genuinely messed up and less recognizable than before. Songs like E1, E2, E4, E6, and E8 are all noticably messed up but are still definitely songs. Songs like E3, E5, E7, F1, F2 F3, F5, and F6 are more empty and have less musical notes (or whatever you'd call it). Songs like F4, F7, and F8 are all extremely messed up and start to lose what makes them songs. They sound more like the Post Awareness Confusions stages.
Post Awareness Stage 4: The songs are more chaotic than before and shift in flow a lot more inconsistently and randomly. This stage has some really good moments like the Hell Sirens/Sundown Syndrome and the Temporary Bliss State. The ending to this stage is one of the best ending tracks to any of the stages.
Post Awareness Stage 5: This stage is no longer songs and is more so chaotic hellish noises in the first half, and white noisy sounds in the second half. K1 is a great opening track, it's a great transition into a chaotic hell that is Stage 5. "Was it a dream?" Aka the first clarity moment is a powerful moment that hits you in the gut hard. The second clarity moment is also great, if not, better than "Was it a dream?" because the gradual build up to it and the gradual build "down" back Into chaos is more clear and apparent. The Mandolin Segment at the end is my top favorite in Stage 5 however. It just sounds like an ending to Stage 5, but unfortunately, it's not. It's only the beginning of the stage truly kicking in.
Post Awareness Stage 6: The final stage in this album is a jarringly powerful stage (Like the rest of the album but even more so) The songs are all gone, there is only white noise and occasional notes. This leads to a depressing finale where there is one last real song (Which is either Terminal Lucidity or a Funeral depending on what you interpret it as) before the patient is laid to rest in one final minute, signalling death.
Overall, EATEOT is a masterpiece, there is no denying that. I'd highly recommend listening to it unless you're sensitive to materials like these. I did spoil a few moments but there's still the entire SIX AND A HALF HOURS to listen to on Spotify (I think it's funny how this is casually on Spotify as if it was a normal album). There is also a lot of fan projects on this album. Obviously I'm not going to talk about them because they are completely different albums but one I recommend is "EATEOT With Voices" which is pretty much what the title says. It's the same album but with voices, made by @DanteTimberwolf. They made three remakes for the first three stages but another YouTuber finished the rest @LatteCookieEATEOTWV and I think that one is pretty underrated. Another one I'd strongly recommend is the (several) Visual remakes of the album that (you guessed it) try to give Visuals to the sound. One I'd recommend is one of the most popular ones. (Idk what it's called but just know that it's the "one of the most popular" ones." which should be by @R9955n1). There's another pretty underrated visual project by @ElectroWalker86 and while I think the execution on earlier stages could be better, the PA Stages are actually really well done imo. Finally, another fan project I'd recommend is Everywhere in the beginning of nowhere (which has a couple of different versions) by @thecarebear2360 which, by the way, is a 14 YEAR OLD or so and it's still well made. Btw I haven't listened to any of these projects in full but I have seen glimpses and I did listen to a big portion of With Voices (up to Stage 4, I think I1 is where I stopped).
This is barely scratching the surface btw, there are so many more. Some for individual songs or stages and some for the entire album. For Example, there's an extremely underrated video by @Minimimim that is supposed to replicate how My Heart Will Stop In Joy would sound in other songs. It's a remake of someone else's video btw but I forgot their name.
I'd describe EATEOT as a terrible masterpiece overall. Something unbelievably powerful and well made, but unlike other masterpieces (like Hawaii Part 2 or something), this is meant to break you, not to comfort you. It's like that one quote, "Art is meant to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable."
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