This is a preorder. Albums can be picked up or will be mailed out upon street date. Order by 4/28/23 to get by 5/12/23.
Label: Temporary Residence Limited
(Whirring Marvels In) Consensus Reality is the new album by Eluvium– the renowned moniker of prolific modern composer, Matthew Robert Cooper. Taking initial inspirations from T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and Richard Brautigan’s All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace, (Whirring Marvels) inherently deals both with humankind’s need for meaning, and the emergence of algorithms reflecting the feedback loops of humankind’s interactions with machines themselves. This complicated relationship that we have with technology, automations, and algorithms – and the influence they in turn have on shaping our image of the world – is the mechanized heart and soul of an album that almost instantly establishes itself as a peak in Eluvium’s inimitable catalog. (Whirring Marvels In) Consensus Reality blends an ornate combination of ingredients to construct a narrative of our dynamic invention; technological advancement; loneliness and isolationism; and unchecked idealism in a world of never-ending growth. The resulting hope that somehow emerges is itself a marvel of innovation and inspiration.
Track listing:
- Escapement
- Swift Automations
- Vibration Consensus Reality (For Spectral Multiband Resonator)
- Scatterbrains
- Phantasia Telephonics
- The Violet Light
- Void Manifest
- Clockwork Fables
- Mass Lossless Interbeing
- A Floating World Of Demons
- Endless Flower