The Disintegration Loops (William Basinski)

If there is an award for The Saddest Music In The World, I present it now and forever to WilliamBasinski'sDisintegration Loops. This isn't music that makes you weep; this is music-as-weeping, the sound of the lament of the universe itself, sorrow on the order of Miles Davis's "He Loved Him Madly". Some of the impact stems from the concept, both in its scope and execution, but at the end of the day (or the end of days, ha ha), it's the sound itself here that causes the tears to be shed. Anythi...