Description:	triple CD set on History Always Favours The Winners
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Ambient
	Label:	History Always Favours the Winners
	Price:	£16.39
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

5
...according to our Brett on 05 November 2009.

The complete 3CD 'suite' of Leyland Kirby's Sadly, the Future is No Longer What it Was has just popped it's mournful head around the office door after the three double vinyl editions which came and went so fast I can't even remember seeing them. As loads of lengthy reviews have already been written (by ourselves and many others) I won't go too far into it other than to say that it's a totally epic achievement and he could probably do with listening to The Streets' counselling masterpiece 'Dry Your Eyes' for a bit now it's over with. You'll rarely hear resignation and sadness expressed so beautifully. Here's Ant's treatise and Phil's summation if you feel the need to delve further but you'd be as well off just buying the thing and digging in, it's well worth it.

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What their label says...

These pieces are the first released by The Caretaker’s
James Kirby under his own name and are the result of
an intense period of production aimed at encapsulating
a deep feeling of loss and alienation.
What started as a concept for a simple single album
soon turned into a double-album, then into a double-
double-album before finally ending up as a triple-
double-vinyl-album and triple-compact-disc
soundtrack.
As James Leyland Kirby himself describes it:
“Here we stand, twenty years on from the first cd, and
our optimism has gradually been eroded away
collectively. 'Tomorrows World' never came.
We are lost and isolated, many of us living our lives
through social networks as we try to make sense of it
all, becoming voyeurs not active participants.
Documenting everything. No mystery. Everything laid
bare for all to see.
'Sadly, the future is no longer what it was' is the
soundtrack to a world in decline, the heroism of
modern life, a document of loss, an essay in gloom,
delivered with a brutally honest appreciation of the
pitiful truth.