Inventions has been played on NTS in shows including The Wire Magazine Present Rewired, featured first on 2 April 2015. Songs played include Outlook For The Future, Springworlds (Leyland Kirby Remix) and Continuous Portrait.

Inventions is a band formed by longtime friends, tourmates, and labelmates Matthew Cooper of Eluvium, and Mark T. Smith of Explosions In The Sky.

There are plenty of talking points here: The fact that Cooper hasn’t been in a “band” of any sort since he was a teenager; no member of Explosions In The Sky has released an album outside of the context of EITS since their inception in the late…