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False Readings On

Eluvium

False Readings On

Album number eight from Oregon-based ambient musician and producer Matthew Cooper

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7.4

Label
Temporary Residence
UK Release date
02/09/2016
US Release date
02/09/2016
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  1. 8.3 |   A.V. Club

    False 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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  2. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    All 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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  3. 8.0 |   All Music

    Well 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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  4. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    These are lo-fi, grainy drones; often they quite literally represent the crackly sound of disintegration. The result is something grittier and more tactile than in the past
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  5. 8.0 |   Exclaim

    This is another strikingly beautiful work from Eluvium
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  6. 7.5 |   Spectrum Culture

    A generous helping of music that soothes and surprises and occasionally leaps from our speakers
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  7. 7.0 |   Beardfood

    It’s not perfect, nor always coherent, but it makes you feel something
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  8. 7.0 |   Tiny Mix Tapes

    If 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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  9. 7.0 |   Pitchfork

    Marshals his sound into sweeping maximalist splendo
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