Eager is Kirby's second great album of 2011: He's also responsible for the Caretaker project, under which he released An Empty Bliss Beyond This World near the beginning of summer. The alias isn't really just for the sake of the artist's ego: While both this record and and An Empty Bliss have an unrepentantly nostalgic quality to them, the Caretaker records have become narrowly focused on microedits of pre-war parlor and ballroom music, but the music Kirby's releasing under his own name has a more cinematic, less conceptually unified feel. I'm not sure one's better than the other: There's something satisfying about how contained the Caretaker sound is, and something equally satisfying about how permissible-- and personal-- Kirby sounds under his own name.
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