Basinski proving he is the daddy of loopy ambient. These are all essentially a piano loop
with various levels of play with echoes and (mild) sound destruction. The atmospheres they
craft is very potent, but this isn't Basinski's best execution as there are places with
annoyingly loud ringing sound and a couple occasional "formal" problems like that that are
quite detrimental to the experience. I'd say 2hrs of runtime is also quite long for an album
like this, also it is exactly what I needed here. Most of the pieces are around 15-20min and
work very well individually with various degrees of success. My favourites were perhaps the
second and sixth variation, whilst the seventh sounded quite familiar as its melody will be
practically reused for Cascade which was fun to see. I think I still prefer Cascade, but
this is a nice broken and distorted version of it. Probably one I'll rejam tracks from, but
not in whole unless I am again in the very specific mood that calls for it. 3.5
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