The Stranger Watching Dead Empires in Decay

Ambient musician James Leyland Kirby releases music as Leyland Kirby, V/Vm and the Caretaker (including An Empty Bliss Beyond This World, one of Pitchfork's Top 50 Albums of 2011). He also releases music under the name the Stranger. Watching Dead Empires in Decay follows 2008?s Bleaklow, and finds Kirby re-located to a brand new home on the Modern Love imprint. Reported to contain “unsettling Lynchian soundscapes” and “moments of intense beauty,” we can assume that it’s going to be business as usual from the really quite reliable Kirby…

01 We Are Enemies But Not Here
02 So Pale It Shone In The Night
03 Spiral Of Decline
04 We Scarcely See Sunlight
05 Providence Or Fate
06 Where Are Our Monsters Now, Where Are Our Friends?
07 Grey Day Drift
08 Ill Fares The Land
09 About To Enter A Strange New Period