Temporary Residence is a record label that I've been checking out more and more lately, and from the looks of things they're getting ready for their biggest first quarter ever. First off, their biggest name, Explosions in the Sky is releasing their latest album "All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone", and judging from early opinion of the leak it might be their best effort yet and a breakthrough for the whole genre of post-rock. While I'm not as familiar with the genre, I can tell you that I've never heard instrumentation that's as majestic and overwhelming [...]
Following up last year's sparse EP release, Matthew Cooper returns to a form I've longed to hear again in his music. Leaving the intensity of the guitar drone behind, he creates an album that is fragile and panoramic at the same time. Echoing much of the musicianship of An Accidental Memory In the Case of Death , he lets his melancholy symphonic side show through again. Whereas before he limited his classical leanings to achingly sad piano suites; here he opens up his palette and allows hope to shimmer through in bright flashes of full orchestral textures. Cooper proves [...]
Eluvium We're diligently working to get our " Top Shows of 2006 " list up sometime today, but in the meantime, here's a beautiful new track from the forthcoming Eluvium record, Copia , out Feb. 20, 2007. That'll be a big day for Temporary Residence , as the new Explosions In The Sky album is released the same day: Eluvium Prelude for Time Feelers mp3 bonus: Explosions In [...]
Hope you all had a good Thanksgiving. Tomorrow, as we all know, is Black Friday. Busiest shopping day of the year. Why people think it's so important to go shopping on the first day of Christmas shopping season, I don't know. I just make mixes. The Strokes Reptilia Klaxons Atlantis To Interzone (Ayia Napa To Interzone Tapedeck Remix) Sigur Ros Staralfur Bright Eyes [...]
No - this isn't the new Eluvium, it's... the old one. I saw this guy live when he opened for Mono a couple months ago, and to be honest it blew me away. His careful keyboard work, along with the guitar and loopstation stuff he had going on, it really sounded fantastic. To be honest, I'm not sure now if his albums can live up to the live thing, but in any case this album is hard to fault. Consisting just of piano melodies, it's a breath of fresh air after one listens to such heavily [...]
Late Saturday night update. From Temporary Residence page: "Born in Tennessee and raised in Louisville, KY, Matthew Cooper relocated to Portland, OR several years back and has since spent many a night holed up in his house transforming the vibrations in his brain into sweeping walls of elegant noise. With a depth ranging from fragile to glacial, he takes dense layers of guitars and pianos and builds them into an awe-inspiring fortress around himself. Resting comfortably and confidently in the spirits of Brian Eno's most accomplished ambient pieces, Eluvium is a freakishly beautiful affair. If it was ever possible for [...]
Matthew cooper has produced albums of two distinct varieties. The first, ethereal and drone based; built around walls of swirling analog hum. The second, a short album of solo piano pieces written as a tribute to a departed friend. Both styles are incredibly adept at conveying saddness and lonliness in doses of staggering proportion. Matthew's new album under the guise of Eluvium is a bit of a mixture of his previous styles. The seas of noise are no where near as deep but the instrumentation hardly feels as sparse as An Accidental Memory In The Case Of Death . [...]
The best way to describe Eluvium is that he (Matthew Cooper) makes really intense ambient music. That may sound oxymoronic, but with the volume loud enough and the right headphones, there's really no better term. To a degree that no other current ambient artist I've encountered does, Cooper turns sheets of texture into glacial movements that slowly but inexorably reveal songs structures. While he released an incredible full-length last year ( Talk Amongst The Trees , which ranked well on my year-end list), he's on tour with a new disc, When I Live By the [...]
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