new album is out. thank you to my label @tempresltd for all the support. thank you to all the performers. thank you to @obsoleteworld for the art. thank you all for listening. love to you all. take care out there.
Eluvium will host a Bandcamp Listening Party on Tuesday, April 21, 2026! In addition to playing the upcoming new album, Virga III, in its entirety for the first time in public, Matthew Robert Cooper (aka Eluvium) will be in attendance to chat and offer up a special prize given away during the Listening Party. See you there!
You can now pre-order Virga III – the third installment in Eluvium’s inspired experimental series – and hear the first single, “A.M.”
The songs on Virga III are composed and performed by Cooper, as always, but in the Virga universe, he essentially feels a unique collaboration within himself. As Cooper explains, “The Virga series affords me an opportunity to return to an older version of myself, but with a new level of understanding. Practicing more patience interacting with these built musical systems and recordings, I hesitantly duet with my past self in a new performance or manipulative layer, only after digesting the first for as long as possible, to a point of it conjuring new and uncharted feelings, in hopes of curating a sense of therapeutic self-awareness and discovery. A mixture of the exploratory mindset against a painterly emotional resonance, gradually unfurling itself unto itself.”
The Virga III LP is pressed onto crystal clear colored vinyl and housed in a full-color heavyweight old-style tip-on jacket. It is limited to a one-time pressing of 1,000 copies worldwide.
Today Eluvium announces Virga III, the third installment in the inspired experimental series that began back in 2020. In unmistakable contrast to the dense, ominous sprawl of Virga II, the works that make up Virga III offer an almost divine reprieve. The nervous tension, loss of control, and patient recontextualization that inspires each volume of the Virga series manifests in unique ways.
As composer and Eluvium architect, Matthew Robert Cooper describes, “While Virga I was brought to me by a temporary evacuation from my house to my garage during a winter snowstorm – and Virga II by a phantasmal dream sequence during the height of a global pandemic – Virga III takes its inspiration from the worlds found in minor green spaces, culverts, and other miniature biological ecosystems operating within our daily deluge of cruel rhetoric, unspeakable violence, unending disruption and devastating disparity. A reflection on the micro and macro universes that surround us.”
Virga III is out May 15th. You can listen to the alleviating first single, “A.M” and pre-order the crystal clear colored vinyl.
Honored to be on the selection committee for @bobbyanspachstudiosfoundation new grant opportunities. For this first year the foundation is offering significant funding and I highly suggest applying if you feel your work and vision match up with the foundation. More information can be found via my links. Hope to see some of you in there.
