Well I've listened to The Caretaker's
An Empty Bliss Beyond This World. I'd listened to it when it came out and thought it was okay back then. Listened to it the other day and thought it was... still okay. Thought better of it, but wasn't blown away.
BUT.
I'm listening to
A Stairway To The Stars right now and it is
waaaay better than
An Empty Bliss. In my opinion, anyway. My problem with
An Empty Bliss is that it skips. Literally. The Caretaker has the old jazz records he samples literally skip and repeat over and over, and though that gives it a very cool atmosphere, it gets boring.
A Stairway To The Stars, however, is constantly changing and different and new. He uses less straight-up samples and mixes his own ambient pieces with the sampled jazz and classical. He alters the old records more dramatically in cool ways. This record is fantastic, listen to it!
