“Sandwiches” gives way quickly to the first liturgical solar rays of “Statuit”, a nine and a half minute echo drenched piece which conjures images of an early morning sun shining through an empty cathedral’s stained-glass windows.
Kyle Bobby Dunn is aware of this fact, and his music conveys it definitively, and quite beautifully.New Artillery's Sebastian Stirling relished the album, writing: "Each of Ways of Meaning’s six pieces offers a unique arrangement of those intersecting sets of concentric circles.
These specific pieces are the highlights of Ways of Meaning, but as my six full spins of the album will attest, it’s remarkably easy to get lost in this album.The Liminal wrote: "Dunn’s drones make patent that quality in a way that so much post-noise work, encrusted with sonic ornament and desperate not to bore the listener, does not; they maintain fealty to the qualities of classic post-La Monte Young drone-music, of flattening out rhythm as far as possible so the horizon of the Song seems to stretch on infinitely, of finding its interest in close-focus on the detail of the moment, augmented by the depth and complexity allowed by electronic instruments.
The former song starts the album with the kind of classically post-ambient Brian Eno/Aphex Twin/Stars of the Lid atmosphere that begs to be heard while stretched out and perfectly still, the slowest of melodies and the softest of tones but still using hooks as such to create its impact.
As for "Movement for the Completely Fucked" itself, it's as gently enveloping as one could want, 15 minutes of a similarly understated hook-as-such impact as the opening piece and beautifully done every step of the way, building to a exultant conclusion.This breathtaking work is at the top of my list as one of the most gorgeous ambient albums of all time.