Hey, fellow eMusic subscribers. What have you grabbed from the site that's particularly rocked your world lately?→[More:]I'm about halfway through my downloads for the month. Mostly catching up on stuff that should have been in my collection forever ago: another album by The Fall (I have a feeling I'm going to end up being a huge fan of this band), the first NEU! record. Stuff like that. Yay!

Of everything I downloaded last month I'm most happy with Alopecia by Why?. What a weird, likable album.

Oh, and by the way, I noticed that they've added a bunch of stuff by William Basinski. His Disintegration Loops are some of the most hauntingly sad ambient works I've ever heard. A bit tough to listen to but pretty rewarding:

The four-disk Disintegration Loops were made from tape loops Basinski made back in the early 1980s. While transferring them from reel-to-reel to digital the old tapes were disintegrating as they played; "The music was dying," he wrote. He lives in Brooklyn, and on 9/11/01 while completing these recordings, he watched as the Twin Towers also disintegrated, filming it as he made these decaying pieces. The music is ambient; beautiful, sad, pastoral,and unusual in that we can hear it falling apart. Each of the works employs a different repeating loop that slowly deteriorates, evoking nature that is fleeting and fragile.

God, do I love eMusic.