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Eluvium

Eluvium is the main recording name of Matthew Robert Cooper, an ambient composer born in Tennessee and based in Portland, Oregon. His debut, Lambent Material, came out on Temporary Residence in 2003, and with Mark T. Smith of Explosions in the Sky he also records as Inventions. The most recent Eluvium album, Virga III, came out in May 2026.

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Matthew Cooper seated on a dark stage, head bowed over an electric guitar, with a keyboard beside him
Photo: Ajwik, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Eluvium Nightmare Ending

Matthew Cooper shelved the follow-up to Copia over his own perfectionism, then finished it years later as a double album that ends with Ira Kaplan singing.

Elmo Phelge · 4 Nov 2026