Eluvium's Double Album Nightmare Ending Out Now

"The indie-rock generation's most diverse ambient musician. Essential." - Spin

  

"An album that borders on perfection" - Alternative Press

Eluvium's critically acclaimed double-album Nightmare Ending is out now on Temporary Residence Ltd. Nightmare Ending has been praised by NPR, Pitchfork, Spin, Alternative Press, Stereogum,Consequence Of Sound, Stereo Subversion and many more. NPR's Robin Hilton said, "Cooper's seventh album as Eluvium, Nightmare Ending is his best yet, and it's full of some of 2013's most transporting new music" while Stereogum added "Nightmare Ending is full of achingly emotive acoustic ambient music." 

  

Nightmare Ending is the first proper Eluvium album released since 2010's Similes, the unexpectedly vocal-heavy ambient-pop record that simultaneously delighted and confounded longtime fans. But theNightmare Ending story actually began years earlier, as it was intended to be the follow-up to the watershed album, Copia. Conceived as a way of helping loosen his self-imposed ideals of perfection, Cooper labeled each Nightmare Ending track as either a "dream," or an "imperfection" - a way of differentiating the philosophical concept of "dream vs. reality," couched in the more tangible technical distinctions of "flawless vs. flawed." With each progressive listen those differences naturally challenged themselves, and without relying on the standardized perfection protocol, Cooper became increasingly reluctant to release any of it. He shelved it, and pursued Similes instead. But Nightmare Ending wouldn't go away; it lingered in the back of his mind, the abandoned fruits of a truly worthwhile and noble journey towards a less creatively constraining mindset. Cooper returned to it with renewed vigor, writing and recording in a blur of time that spanned several years. The result is a body of work that encompasses everything remarkable about past Eluvium albums, executed more powerfully and poignant than ever before.

  

Executed with equal parts wonder and abandon, Nightmare Ending has a magical way of making tiny sounds feel overwhelmingly enveloping. For an almost entirely instrumental album, it speaks volumes about the volatility and ecstasy of Eluvium's colorful, cathartic world.

  

For more info, please visit:

  

http://www.eluvium.net 

http://temporaryresidence.com/