Melancholia
"Melancholia" traces a gentle, eerie path through a selection of aural vignettes that together form a sort of mental scrapbook of musical thoughts. William Basinski employs a method of music-making that is in time with the memory-evoking style of Boards Of Canada. It unfolds and evaporates in sparse and confounding waves, but with the gentleness of Loscil or Marsen Jules. What might have begun as a cycle of simple piano melodies and incomplete passages becomes transformed by distance and perspective.