Emo's 16th Anniversary Continues with Eluvium

Portland, OR's Matthew Cooper, a.k.a. Eluvium, has been orchestrating bits of guitar, piano, and electronics into massively elegant ambient compositions for a few years now. (Despite his relatively brief time on the scene, he's already amassed enough work for his label to have a 7xLP box set in the works for later this year.) Cooper has also recently released an album called Miniatures under his own name, which may or may not work its way into Eluvium's set at Emo's tonight. While Cooper doesn't seem quite like the kind of artist that would endear himself to performing in downtown rock dives, let alone headlining an anniversary show for a punk-centric club like Emo's, stranger things have happened. Come to think of it, this could be a match made in heaven. With local experimentalists Balmorhea and Bexar Bexar opening.

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