Leyland Kirby is interested in memories; in an interview for the Headphone Commute, in 2011, he described the fascination: "We are our memories and the saddest thing and big fear we all have is of losing our ability to remember as then really we are nothing only a shell and it's tragic for those around us to witness this descent into a living hell (even though we ourselves would not recognise anything being wrong)."

Patience (After Sebold) is the soundtrack to a documentary by Grant Gee, where he re-traced the steps of author WG Sebold's journey down the British sea coast. as chronicled in his most famous book, 'The Rings Of Saturn'. The book, and the film, both deal with the nature of memory and perception, of their unreliability, creating a ghost-like nether world in which the author floats and observes. Leyland Kirby's smeary, dreamy melancholia is the perfect score for this limbo.

After a number of releases under his own name, most notably "Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Once Was," with its ambitious six sides of antiquated chamber piano, where Leyland Kirby was focused more on composing and performing the pieces, and giving achieving a much more emotional and personal vision, 'Patience (After Sebold)', returns to The Caretaker's signature wax cylinder deconstructions. Named after Jack Torrance in The Shining, Leyland Kirby has been conjuring music for the haunted ballroom since 1999, but Patience (After Sebold) is much more classical than vaudeville, re-purposing sounds from Franz Schubert's 'Winterreise'; most of the album consists of locked piano grooves, with slurred disembodied choirs and pipe organs 3 miles in the sky, the whole affair is chopped and blurred with cotton swabs of reverb, like watching seaweed drift, through the surface of a fish tank.

"Patience (After Sebold)" seems distant, receding, like a rusting space station, drifting beyond Earth's radiosphere, dying transmissions from the familiar, and the voices that sent them now long since passed, anyway. Haunting, bittersweet, elegant, classic; Leyland Kirby has a way with working with tiny vignettes of music, cobbling them together like a sterling automaton, and creating something utterly distinctive and unique. Along with William Basinski, he is Master of the Loop.