Eluvium - Similes (2010)

Eluvium make really pretty ambient music that sounds a bit classical at times. He does wonderful things with a piano and his vocals aren’t too bad, though they aren’t the main attraction. He creates a very nice atmosphere with his ambient sounds. My only complaint is that sometimes it gets a bit predictable: often songs are in the form of a shimmering note that grows progressively louder until the piano and maybe vocals come in. This motif is so common amongst instrumental post-rock and ambient music that it lacks any real impact. This type of music is not supposed to be predictable in the slightest, and that keeps Eluvium from being a really great ambient artist. His music is pleasant enough to make for great albums though, since it isn’t easy to put this much beauty on a compact disc.

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