Photo: Matthew Cooper

Inventions are approaching the release of their third album Continuous Portrait later this month, and they had already enticed us with two singles, the gorgeous and gentle ‘Outlook For The Future’ and the delightful and jubilant ‘Calico’. Longtime friends Matthew Cooper of Eluvium and Mark T. Smith of Explosions In The Sky, who make up the duo, have now shared the album’s title track, ‘Continuous Portrait’. The track is “perhaps the most inward looking of the bunch”, as the press release describes, “with an ambient electronic interplay acting as an uplifting mind-frame that helps to pave the way for the rest of the interplay between the duo.” Take a listen below.

Continuous Portrait is out digitally on May 29th and on cd/vinyl on July 10th through Temporary Residence.

Earlier this month, Inventions shared the gorgeous and gentle lead single ‘Outlook For The Future’, taken from their upcoming album Continuous Portrait. The creative alliance of Matthew Cooper of Eluvium and longtime friend Mark T. Smith of Explosions In The Sky have shared a new track, the delightful and jubilant ‘Calico’. Both singles mark new and different directions for the duo, as the press release remarks, “and it is that very sense of exploration, pleasure, and ceremonial melancholia which informs the entire album from front to back.”

Continuous Portrait is out digitally on May 29th and on cd/vinyl on July 10th through Temporary Residence. Mark your calendars and right now, listen to ‘Calico’.

Photo: Matthew Cooper

After two long players released in 2014 and 2015, Inventions, the creative alliance of Matthew Cooper of Eluvium and longtime friend Mark T. Smith of Explosions In The Sky, are back with a new album. Entitled Continuous Portrait, it arrives digitally on May 29th and a cd/vinyl release will follow on July 10th through Temporary Residence.

“An album of strange hypnosis, punctuated by songs that venture quite far from the respective oeuvres of Cooper and Smith”, describes the press release, Continuous Portrait has a “sense of exploration, pleasure, and ceremonial melancholia which informs the entire album from front to back.”

Inventions are already enticing us with the gorgeous and gentle lead single ‘Outlook For The Future’. Take a listen below.

Inventions have unveiled a quirky video for the marvellous ‘Peregrine’, taken from their recently released album, Maze of Woods. Paul Logan directs. Here it is.

Maze of Woods is out now in the UK via Bella Union and in the US via Temporary Residence.

We had already heard and loved Inventions‘ first wonderful and serene single, ‘Springworlds’, taken from their upcoming second album Maze of Woods. The track has now been paired with a stunning video directed by Dan Jacobs. Here it is.

Maze of Woods is out  on March 16th in the UK via Bella Union and March 17th in the US via Temporary Residence.

Inventions, the creative alliance of Matthew Cooper of Eluvium and longtime friend Mark T. Smith of Explosions In The Sky, came to life in 2013 and the pair released their self-titled debut album last year. They are ready to follow it up, having just announced the release of a new full-length album entitled Maze of Woods. The album is inspired by the closing paragraph of Denis Johnson’s novella Train Dreams, where Johnson “describes the nonverbal howl of a feral wolf boy, a pre-language that is yearning and instinctual; a statement of wordless distress and love”, as the press release explains.
Maze of Woods is due out on March 16th in the UK via Bella Union and a day later in the US via Temporary Residence. Ahead of it, Inventions have shared ‘Springworlds’, the first wonderful and serene single. Take a listen now.