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Sep 2, 2016False Readings On leaves you with as much unease as it does catharsis. But these steps forward make sense for the composer as he forges on.
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Jan 19, 2017If False Readings On proves anything, it’s that Matthew Cooper has again shown just how good he is at making music that’s too engrossing to be just ambient, too pretty to be just noise, too eventful to be just drone (as worthy as those all are as forms) and too individual to be the work of anyone else.
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Sep 1, 2016False Readings On is a calmer, more pensive, and more inward-looking affair than Cooper’s recent Inventions releases.
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Sep 1, 2016Well over a decade after the release of Eluvium's brilliant 2003 debut, Lambent Material, Cooper continues to sound inspired and inventive.
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Sep 1, 2016Cooper seems to have found just the right balance of electronic elements and traditional instrumentation for this album, as well.
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Sep 1, 2016All together, False Readings On is not without weight and form, but it does leave an outsized impression for the mass it wields.
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Sep 14, 2016If sometimes the grandeur threatens to overwhelm, the album’s subtle gradations just as often leave me struggling to explain why exactly they make me shiver, pause, cry, or, at their most elusive, disappear.
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Sep 7, 2016The sense persists that the more Eluvium piles on, the less unique he sounds. False Readings On is awesome while it’s playing, and when it stops, it’s gone.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 10 out of 12
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Negative: 2 out of 12
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Jan 8, 2017