Description:	CD on Temporary Residence Records
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Neoclassical
	Label:	Temporary Residence
	Price:	£10.29
	Availability:	Dispatched within 2-5 days (on average).

5
...according to our Phil on 15 March 2007.

Someone who utilises orchestral-ness with a degree of sheer brilliance and mastery is ELUVIUM.  Matthew Cooper (he who is Eluvium) makes the fantastic neo classical thing I've heard in some time. Copia is by far his strongest release and pretty much every track will have you delving for more tissues as you wipe the tears from your weeping face. We were playing this the other day and the distro for it thought we were listening to Richard Clayderman. That's well funny! Whorra knob. There's quite a few tracks here which remind you of Max Richter (they remind me of him anyway) as it's super emotive pretty floaty lovely-ness with tinkly pianos and very similar sounding somber chord progressions. I can't believe I said somber chord progressions. Whorra tool. Buy this cos it's completely fucking brilliant. Nuff said.

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Sound clips for Copia by Eluvium: on CD at Norman Records UK. CD, Temporary Residence, TRR110CD, £10.29.

What their label says...

Following a string of increasingly remarkable albums, ELUVIUM's MATTHEW COOPER set out to broaden his instrumental palette, while maintaining the uncanny emotional resonance that has become his trademark. The result is "Copia", an hour-long epic that applies Eluvium's heartache-inducing ether to a symphony of strings, brass, keyboards and piano. Noticeably absent but hardly missed are the washes of guitars that color most of Eluvium's previous material. The deliberate exclusion of traditional rock instrumentation serves as sufficient proof that the instrument is not Eluvium's driving force. At best it is a catalyst, a vehicle to that netherworld in the back of your head, where your life starts to uncontrollably reevaluate itself.