Wednesday, December 22
Disintegration Loops at #15
William Basinski's The Disintegration Loops was #15 on Stylusmagazine.com's Top 40 Albums of 2004--thanks, almost entirely, to the fact that I voted it #1 on my own list (which was included in the web site's calculations). For those nit-pickers out there, yes, the album wasn't released in 2004--in fact, disk one was actually released in 2001. But the other three disks were released in December, 2003, and since the Stylus list had to be turned in on December 5 of this year, all albums released last December were eligible for the 2004 list. Besides, it was also listed on Pitchfork's top 50. My question is: why hasn't everyone in the world gone out and gotten this record? What's taking you people so long? Move!
