Basinski credits a piano, refrigerator, saxaphone, and tape loop to the making of this album, and as you listen, these 4 sonic elements twist your brain into knots as they loop and shift and flare in their beauty and imperfections. Melencholy is captured in its slow, repetitious, and all encompassing way. For an hour, you will feel sad, but after emerging from the liquid emotion, a breath of silence will never feel so rich. Restraint and moments of void in this recording allow you to take in sonic elements external from it, adding to the cacaphony, and pointing to the beauty of the heard world.