LWA Blog — eluvium

This last weekend of October, the Randomizer (I feel like this word should be capitalized) gives us Inventions' Continuous Portrait, which was released in 2020. This band, Inventions, is a collaboration between a couple people; Eluvium's Matthew Cooper and Explosions in the Sky's Mark T. Smith. They are (were?) label-mates (Temporary Residence Limited) and I think Eluvium and EITS toured together early on. Continuous Portrait is their third album. I feel the Eluvium vibes in the record, they are easier to pick up since that's just one person. EITS is essentially a rock band of which Smith is 25% of, and...

Happy 20th to Eluvium's first album, Lambent Material, released on May 6 2003. I was heavily into Temporary Residence (label) back then and always browsing their catalog. I remember hearing a track on a sampler and liking it a lot, so I ended up buying the CD which I promptly fell in love with. To me, listening to it is like watching something beautiful slowly unfolding. And even though there are now like a million Eluvium releases, I feel like that sensibility provides the foundation in all of them. Nothing seems rushed and it happens on its own time. If you're...