Product Identifiers
Record Label
Temporary Residence
UPC
0656605326016
Product Key Features
Artist
Eluvium
Format
Vinyl
Release Year
2016
Number of Audio Channels
Stereo
Release Title
Life Through Bombardment, Vol. 2 [Box]
Type
LP, Box Set
Genre
Rock
Additional Product Features
Additional information
Life Through Bombardment, Vol. 2 is the second limited-vinyl box set compiling the recorded output of Matthew Cooper"s remarkable ambient project Eluvium. Cooper"s earlier albums (included in the first Life Through Bombardment box in 2009) established his shoegaze-influenced ambient sound while exhibiting modern classical influences, ranging from the Satie-inspired piano meditations of An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death to the majestic orchestral arrangements of Copia. His works during the first half of the 2010s were ambitious in different ways, and all of them continued to explore different facets of his sound. 2010"s Similes was the first Eluvium release to include percussion, singing, and proper song structures. While this may have initially come as a shock to Cooper"s faithful followers, the album"s gentle rhythmic loops and languid, melancholy vocals fit perfectly into the Eluvium canon, and the 11-minute "Cease to Know" was a sublime ambient epic as only he could do it. The album"s two most accessible songs spawned EPs, and in no way did the accompanying B-sides sound like cast-offs. The singles also included remixes; Four Tet"s version of "The Motion Makes Me Last" framed the glistening piano melody with gently galloping beats, while Nick Zammuto"s "Leaves Eclipse the Light" was more a cover than a remix, with crushed beats and fragile melodies backing his languid vocals. Cooper created his own Watership Sounds imprint for the release of Static Nocturne, initially released as a CD limited to 200 copies. The album consisted of a single 50-minute track, and it seemed to bring back the layers of atmospheric distortion missing from his previous two proper albums. 2013"s ambitious, long-in-the-making double-album Nightmare Ending incorporated nearly every aspect of his work into one opus, ranging from solemn piano pieces to hypnotic, shimmering drones, as well as a few dark noisy moments. The album"s lush closer, "Happiness," featured a vocal cameo from Yo La Tengo"s Ira Kaplan, surrounded by pillow-like keyboards and strings. Another limited release, Wisdom for Debris, was included with a book of paintings by Jeannie Lynn Paske, who has created artwork for most of Eluvium"s releases. The short album was typical of Eluvium"s earlier style, bathing gorgeous, wispy melodies in slightly turbulent waves of static. The box concludes with Curious Things, a disc of previously unissued pieces as well as selections included on compilations. "Ogives/Redistributed" is an interpretation of the Satie piece, with subtle pulses punctuating the droning organ. Much of the disc finds Cooper at his most weightless, but there"s still a distant rumbling to pieces like "Airtapebreathingheart." ~ Paul Simpson
Distribution
ADA
Number of discs
7
Country/Region of Manufacture
USA
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