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Recommended by us on 26th November 2010
...according to our Clinton on Thu 25 Nov, 2010.
Heard a lot about Eluvium but never actually heard them. What a shame. I'll begin with this a 4 track EP with a remix by one of them out of The Books. The title track is a pleasant reverb drenched tune with a drone underpinning some nice echoey piano. There is singing sounding a little bored and distracted which kind of works in a way but the track only reaches its dizzy heights once he flutters off leaving the instruments to echo off quite beautifully. The second track is pretty much an extended version of the intro to U2's 'With or Without You' - no bad thing really is it? The third track a beautiful drone whilst the remix starts with churning slow mo beats, picked guitars and electronics but ends all too soon without going too far from the initial premise. Overall here Eluvium create a hazy world of nearly melodies and moments of greatness which leaves the listener a bit frustrated at times but also craving for more and on the second listen everything slowly reveals itself much more clearly as the music rises up through the fog.
Following the release of the artistically daring and critically-acclaimed Similes earlier this year, we’re proud to present The Motion Makes Me Last EP, the scarcely limited companion CDEP to the equally rare Leaves Eclipse The Light EP. In addition to the stately ambient pop title track, The Motion Makes Me Last EP features three brand new, previously unreleased non-album tracks. “Crash Deconstructed” is a melancholy keyboard-based instrumental that’s equal parts Sigur Rós and Hill Street Blues; “Remnant Signals” matches the elegant, otherwordly beauty of Eluvium’s most striking ambient instrumentals. Closing this collection is a reworking of the Similes cut “Leaves Eclipse The Light” by Nick Zammuto from the Books that’s as much a cover as it is a remix – and every bit as charming, beautiful and unique as you’d expect from the Books. Strictly limited to 2,000 copies and featuring an exquisite custom die-cut cover, we don’t expect these to stick around for very long. “Masterful.” SPIN // “An ambient institution.” Pitchfork // “So wonderful [that] it makes it so hard to believe that everything that might be wrong in your life actually matters at all.” Alternative Press
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