William Basinski announces new album with lead single "O, My Daughter, O, My Sorrow"
24 August 2020, 15:22
| Written by
Cerys Kenneally
William Basinski has unveiled details of his new album Lamentations, as well as releasing "O, My Daughter, O, My Sorrow" as the lead single.
"O, My Daughter, O, My Sorrow" is Basinski's first outing since last year's On Time Out Of Time LP.
Lamentations, according to a press release, was "constructed from tape loops and studies from Basinski’s archives - dating back to 1979".
It marks Basinski's second album of archival sounds to be released this year, following March's Hymns of Oblivion.
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
"O, My Daughter, O, My Sorrow" is out now. William Basinski's Lamentations album will be released 13 November via Temporary Residence, and is available to pre-order now.
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