#2157 Eluvium - False Readings On

I dinged Nightmare Ending for its lack of emotional resonance, but Matt Cooper's got no such problems here. The gigantic surges of strings and synths rise up like the tide, like the sun, like time-lapse fields of grass, tapping into some part of you that feels temporary and small and blowing your dust to the wind. It is a state of constant Sigur Ros climax, of Basinski frailty, of ambient Eno squared - too far, maybe, impressive and daunting and exhausting, death by a thousand shimmering sounds 3.5/5