![]() Proving the adage that some things do indeed get better with time, original LA Chicana punk rocker Alice Bag released her exception self-titled debut nearly 40 years after first come to prominence with her group, the Bags. Ian Kingįalse Readings On by Eluvium False Readings On by Eluvium The distant echoes of lost opera transmissions and lunar church organs lend the music solemnity, but there is playfulness in its elastic sense of time and space. ![]() Weighing on Cooper’s mind throughout the creation process were notions of belief, one’s security therein, and cognitive dissonance - themes that perhaps feel even more on-point now than when False Readings On was released in September. Each subsequent record has tinkered and expanded, but, still, the foggy looseness of False Readings On has the ability to surprise. That 2004 album, consisting solely of Matthew Cooper playing a piano, was Eluvium’s second, and set the terms early for how flexible the parameters of the project would be. If you listen to NPR in the Pacific Northwest, chances are you still occasionally hear Eluvium’s “Genius and the Thieves” or one of a few other tracks from An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death used as interstitial music between segments. ![]()
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