It's a Desert Out There.... Theoretically Pure Anterograde Amnesia was met with general praise from music critics, who felt it improved on the Caretaker's style.

The Caretaker was an alias of English musician Leyland Kirby that explored the haunted ballroom scene of the horror film The Shining.

[2] According to Kirby, the Caretaker alias found a "big leap" with Theoretically Pure Anterograde Amnesia, as it explored memory loss.

[3] The album marks a conceptual change for the Caretaker alias, as its themes of memory loss made the pseudonym much more complex than previous releases did.

[7] Divided into six CDs, it consists of minimal drones made from orchestral music samples by Anglo-Italian orchestra conductor Mantovani slowed down and reverberated to an extreme amount.

The musician said the CDs attempted to recreate the experience of having the disorder within sound; Kirby said, "Even if you listen over and over to all the songs, you still can't remember when these melodies will come in.

I love 1923...[12] Theoretically Pure Anterograde Amnesia was first released in December 2005 as a free download on Kirby's website for the V/Vm Test record label.

[10] Theoretically Pure Anterograde Amnesia received praise from music critics, who felt it improved the Caretaker's style.

"[15] Brainwashed's Matthew Jeanes summarized his review with the statement that, if Kirby's six discs exploring amnesia are not "enough murky drone for a lifetime, I don't know what is.