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May 22, 2014Mark T. Smith from Explosions in the Sky and Matthew Cooper of Eluvium have come together as Inventions to construct something that leans on the ingredients of their day-jobs but is simultaneously exactly what a combination of both acts should sound like and somehow greater than the sum.
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Apr 8, 2014Make time for this single-sitting long-player and you will be rewarded.
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Apr 8, 2014There are times when you know exactly where you want to go and this is the music to take you there.
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Apr 28, 2014Inventions sets aside such linear development; instead, in a track like “Flood Poems,” the background looms up and submerges the guitar and percussion. Still, the album does head somewhere; marches emerge as the beat strengthens in the album’s closing tracks.
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Apr 10, 2014There is just enough guitar work and humanity on Inventions to keep it from spiraling off into space.
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Apr 8, 2014While the pedigree of this project is certainly strong, Inventions stands strong on its own, so although fans of Eluvium and Explosions in the Sky won't have any trouble digging into the album, being a fan of the duo's previous work isn't a part of the price of admission.
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Apr 8, 2014It's no "High Enough," but it is a damn fine collection of selected ambient works.