Nightmare Ending, like Cooper’s best work, combines orchestral shoegaze with ambient piano-led tracks to create a shimmering, worthwhile listen from front to back.
Mostly Nightmare Ending serves as an impressive, simultaneously broad and cohesive reminder and restatement of all the sides of Cooper’s work as Eluvium.
With seventh album Nightmare Ending, Cooper drifts into his tenth year with the project in grand style, presenting a double album and arguably his finest moment.
Nightmare Ending may not be Cooper's most cohesive record, but it's a perfect representation of the indie-rock generation's most diverse ambient musician.
It's a long glorious exhalation of energies not actually dissipated, as it seemed for a while, but only multiplying in force under suppression.
Nightmare Ending manages to be Eluvium’s most evocative and interesting work to date.
There are a lot of great tracks on Nightmare Ending but it is hard not to feel that it is slightly less than the sum of its parts.
By filling two discs with what he does best, Cooper evolves his sound without forcing it. Sometimes you need to couch the new in the comfortable; sometimes you need to retrace every step before you can take the first step forward.
I have been in a dark place lately, and it seems unrelenting. I see no escape from this world, and I’ve come to despise this planet and nihilistically see no reason on why it shouldn’t just end. But the beauty of the earth, no matter how it’s being destroyed, still exists. This album showcases that. When I feel insecure this becomes my soundtrack. Something so soothing yet ominous, in a masterful double album. This is the first time I listened to an album that was an hour and ... read more
1 | Don't Get Any Closer 9:06 | |
2 | Warm 7:10 | |
3 | By the Rails 2:15 | |
4 | Unknown Variation 8:42 | |
5 | Caroling 3:54 | |
6 | Sleeper 6:17 | |
7 | Envenom Mettle 5:23 |
1 | Chime 3:26 | |
2 | Rain Gently 8:49 | |
3 | Impromptu (For the Procession) 4:01 | |
4 | Covered in Writing 9:18 | |
5 | Entendre 4:20 | |
6 | Strange Arrivals 2:50 | |
7 | Happiness 8:16 |
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