Matthew Cooper - Some Days Are Better than Others

My Rating: 3.5/5
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For in case you don’t have idea who’s Matthew Cooper…..Matthew Cooper is another moniker name of the ambient musician, Eluvium, who is based in Portland, Oregon and well-known in the indie scene for his minimal and experimental music blending electronic, shoegze, ambient, classical influences….

‘Some Days Are Better Than Others” is his new soundtrack works for the same-named film featuring members of Sleater-Kinney (Carrie Brownstein) and The Shins (James Mercer). I haven’t watched the movie and, from some other reviews and also from the CD inlay texts and photos, this movie is going to be sad and serious talking why the good times slip by so fast while the hard times always seem so sticky and exploring ideas of abundance, emptiness, human connection and abandonment.....seems better prepare your mental condition before walking to cinema for this movie!!

  

In music term, this is still his trademarked ambient stuff that is full of feeling of unconsciousness, lightness, simplicity and escapism of being in this huge cruel universe……but this time is presented in an even simple way by using single line playing of damaged instruments (to reflect out the main theme of the movie - life after the good old days that we all must have to pass through….) …the outcome is something like a sound check for sound texture of different damaged instruments like organs/synths for different inner emotional reflection, but in a bit over subtle and minimal way…… maybe as we all know, Matthew Cooper/Eluvium is always a low profile (dare I say also elegant!) musician and it makes sense for a movie score to give the main spotlight on the movie itself rather than the music score (dare I guess of his idea like that) !!