(Whirring Marvels In) Consensus Reality

by Eluvium

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bendclosetotheearoftheheart Happy to say I've been listening to Matthew since I was in my first apartment, almost 20 years ago. He's been haunting and charming me ever since...This album brings out new colours and a new dynamism. It's more expansive, yet more precise. Altogether, it's gorgeous. May God bless him for all his beautiful creations! Favorite track: Vibration Consensus Reality (for Spectral Multiband Resonator).

PGH Steel 72 What's not to love about this new album. Sorry, I don't have any 10 dollars words to use, except to say... absolutely amazing. Pure peaceful bliss. 😌😊👍
P.S. I'm sorry to hear about your medical issues. Hope everything's going to be ok.

Mike Cawood-Campbell utterly fantastic, majestic, a salve for my soul. how can one person create so many sublime moving creations. followed him for years and years and he never ever disappoints. Quite astonishing...

G Norton Love the teasing of the release, and my god Phantasia Telephonics is a slammer. Favorite track: Phantasia Telephonics.

Ego Broken Talking about peaks in Eluvium's inmaculate discography is quite daring, but after hearing the complete album almost on repeat for a few days it's growing more and more on me and beginning to feel like Similes did quite a few years ago. It's something different from all previous albums, but Eluvium's trademark is unmistakeable and, once you click into it, you're taken forever. Too many favorite tracks to mention!
BTW also hoping the pain was nothing serious and you're fully recovered now! Favorite track: Phantasia Telephonics.

theo_t So much beauty from such an exceptional human being! Favorite track: Void Manifest.

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1.	Escapement 01:36	buy track
2.	Swift Automatons 02:36	buy track
3.	Vibration Consensus Reality (for Spectral Multiband Resonator) 08:00	buy track
4.	Scatterbrains 03:33	buy track
5.	Phantasia Telephonics 05:55	buy track
6.	The Violet Light 02:30	buy track
7.	Void Manifest 04:10	buy track
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9.	Mass Lossless Interbeing 03:43	buy track
10.	A Floating World of Demons 03:04	buy track
11.	Endless Flower 03:45	buy track

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(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.

During the writing process for (Whirring Marvels In) Consensus Reality, Cooper began experiencing shoulder and arm pain that rendered his left arm increasingly debilitated. This inspired new compositional methods that blended varying degrees of electronic automations with traditional songwriting. Lyrical themes were built using algorithms to cull content from a notebook filled with years of scribbled thoughts, poems, considerations, conspiracies, scientific notions, and notes on the spirit of existence. Employing musicians from all around the world – including members of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME), Golden Retriever, and the entire Budapest Scoring Orchestra – much of the music was conducted and recorded remotely via teleconference during the global COVID lockdowns of 2020 and 2021. This approach to composing served as an unintended but serendipitous challenge for an album inspired by the complicated convenience of technology.

(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.

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