Lamentations, by William Basinski

Lamentations

by William Basinski

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buy art not drugs kinda hopeful kinda sad Favorite track: Tear Vial.

Family Feet September 2022 - I must admit to not liking this song when it appeared on the album, and I didn’t think it belonged but, as it continued I came to enjoy it the most. Favorite track: All These Too, I, I Love.

callmenihil This album started my deep dive into ambient and I cannot be happier about it
Favorite track: O, My Daughter, O, My Sorrow.

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1.	For Whom the Bell Tolls 04:10	buy track
2.	The Wheel of Fortune 03:20	buy track
3.	Paradise Lost 01:22	buy track
4.	Tear Vial 04:45	buy track
5.	O, My Daughter, O, My Sorrow 06:43	buy track
6.	Passio 06:21	buy track
7.	Punch and Judy 03:06	buy track
8.	Silent Spring 06:20	buy track
9.	Transfiguration 03:37	buy track
10.	All These Too, I, I Love 11:06	buy track
11.	Please, This Shit Has Got To Stop 05:04	buy track
12.	Fin 01:37	buy track

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William Basinski’s reputation as the foremost producer of profound meditations on death and decay has long been established, but on his new album, Lamentations, he transforms operatic tragedy into abyssal beauty. More than any other work since The Disintegration Loops, there is an ominous grief throughout the album, and that sense of loss lingers like an emotional vapor.

Captured and constructed from tape loops and studies from Basinski’s archives – dating back to 1979 – Lamentations is over forty years of mournful sighs meticulously crafted into songs. They are shaped by the inevitable passage of time and the indisputable collapsing of space – and their collective resonance is infinite and eternal.

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released November 13, 2020

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William Basinski Los Angeles, California

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