Lamentations
by William Basinski
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
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- The Wheel of Fortune
- Paradise Lost
- Tear Vial
- O, My Daughter, O, My Sorrow
- Passio
- Punch and Judy
- Silent Spring
- Transfiguration
- All These Too, I, I Love
- Please, This Shit Has Got To Stop
- Fin