Horns, violins and an organ all make their appearance, but it’s in Cooper’s classical piano playing where the record warrants the most praise. The use of the instrument is widespread, taking a simple yet affecting form in the virtuoso performance of ‘Radio Ballet’, and fluttering in and out of consciousness in ‘Prelude For Time Feelers’.  Full text...

A combination of all Eluvium work to date, Copia is Matthew Cooper's best effort, mixing melody with ambience in a perfect blend.  Full text...

Sounding fuller, the music on Copia would fit in just as well at an upscale concert hall as it does coming out of a set of speakers connected to an iPod in a hipster's Brooklyn apartment. Piano notes gracefully float over layers of ambient synthesizers, creating elegantly moody and atmospheric pieces. While there has clearly been a degree of evolution from Talk Amongst The Trees and An Accidental Memory In The Case Of Death (Cooper's previous full-lengths for Temporary Residence), none of Eluvium's previous effects are lost with his new offering; the music still winds its way through your mind, but at the same time it moves the soul as well.   Full text...

Incorporating strings, horns, woodwinds, and more piano, Copia is the grandest, most sweeping Eluvium record to date.  Full text...

With one foot in pop music and one in avant-garde composition, Eluvium has crafted an album that is at once immediate and accessible while deceptively complex.  Full text...

It sounds exactly like Eluvium, only with an organ and not a guitar, and with more overt classical aspirations than before.   Full text...

Copia can inspire whatever feelings that it will within the listener, which can vary from person to person. To say that Copia is an achievement in humanism might be overstepping things a little bit, but Cooper's rolling sounds that accumulate in complexity and magnitude like a snowball downhill, iceberg of light snowdrift melodies colliding with the associative cabin we are locked in atop a wintry and windswept snow top.  Full text...