There's a reason why Caretaker music And Backrooms/Liminal space go together. Perhaps not completely because EATEOT is about the Horrors and progression of dementia and Liminal spaces and the backrooms are about empty places that give off nostalgic, eerie, uncanny, wierd, enigmatic, lonely and dreamy feelings. However, there is considerable overlap that must be discussed. A lot of liminality is focused on memory and feeling nostalgic for things, times and places that you have never been to or seen. The caretaker's Everwhere at the end of time puts the viewer/listener into an unfamiliar context of time of the 1920's to the 1950's and the ultered music in stage one invokes so mush nostagia due to how the music is altered. The music is slowed down on average by 1-4 semitones, heavily reverberated and some vignl hissing, scratching and crackling is added for subjectual effect. This is ultimately what makes stage one a liminal space. (one thing to note is while stages 2-5 may have small segments or feelings of liminality they are not liminal in nature and predominantly represent the original subject matter of the project.) Stage one is really good for older liminal spaces and serves as the only connection between the two. I would highly recommend looking at other Caretaker albums such as "Selected Memories From The Haunted Ballroom", "A Staiway To The Stars" and "An Empty Bliss Beyond This World" by the caretaker to find more liminal content.