Lamentations

by William Basinski

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Sourced entirely from decades-old tape loops discovered in his expansive personal archives, the ambient pioneer constructs a mournful, haunting reflection on loss and decay. The loops feature decaying operatic vocals and degraded classical instrumentation, slowed down and repeated into hypnotic, melancholic oblivion. Released during a time of global grief, its themes of inevitable erosion felt exceptionally timely and profound.

Genres

  • Tape Music
  • Dark Ambient
  • Hauntology

Tracklist

  1. For Whom the Bell Tolls
  2. The Wheel of Fortune
  3. Paradise Lost
  4. Tear Vial
  5. O, My Daughter, O, My Sorrow
  6. Passio
  7. Punch and Judy
  8. Silent Spring
  9. Transfiguration
  10. All These Too, I, I Love
  11. Please, This Shit Has Got To Stop
  12. Fin