By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorEvery year, hardcore music fans wrestle with the same wonderful problem: There are too many records. Even if we listened to nothing but new records, non-stop, the numbers just don't add up; we're going to… more »

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Nightmare Ending

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2013 | Temporary Residence Ltd. / SC Distribution

By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorThe prolific Portland, Oregon-based Matthew Cooper has recorded six full-length records of blooming, glacially moving post-rock as Eluvium; Nightmare Ending, his seventh, might be his grandest and possibly his best. This long-worked-on double album condenses all of his strengths as a musician and inflates them; try "Don’t Get Any Closer," today's Daily Download, to get a sense of his music's enormous, alpine scope: This is music spanning endless vistas, footage of rainforests shot from helicopters. more »

Daft Punk

By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorEvery week, eMusic's editorial team assembles a newsletter called The Crib Sheet, which features the five new records we think are essential listening. This is your chance to tell us what you think of the… more »

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By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorAfter taking a brief detour under a new alias last fall — Martin Eden, which had more in common with Warp's early records than the elegant drone tones and lavish neo-classical leanings of Matthew Cooper's… more »

An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death

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An Accidental Memory In The Case Of Death

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By Anna Bond, eMusic ContributorPortland, Oregon’s Matthew Cooper, who records most often as Eluvium, has made a career out of injecting sentiment into musical forms not generally associated with emotion; the term “emo-ambient” was coined for him in jest, but it’s not an unjustified descriptor. While Eluvium is best known for the warm seas of guitar loops he creates on albums like the masterful Talk Amongst the Trees, his most haunting, emotionally resonant work can be found on An Accidental Memory In Case of Death, a collection of solo piano suites. Memory was recorded live with no overdubs, post-production of any kind, or even mastering – and the result is an intimate document of both Cooper’s performance and of his simple, mournful compositions. Cooper is a self-proclaimed acolyte of indie-neoclassicist par excellence Max Richter, and parallels can certainly be drawn; Memory has the most in common with Richter’s wrenching Songs From Before. But Richter’s sadness is… more »

By J. Edward Keyes, Editor-in-ChiefLike a Brian Eno of the Great Plains, Matthew Cooper — a.k.a. Eluvium — creates pools of sound that are warm, tranquil, and deeply evocative. Unlike Eno, though, whose early electronic compositions frequently seemed like… more »