Efterklang || Listen || Watch || MP3Efterklang inhabit another world, a world which, if the earth contained no human life, Parades would be fit to soundtrack. Their sound is not post-apocalyptic; it’s more symbolic of what came before than what will come after. It’s the sound of Mother Nature winding gradually along, where all is well in a land before civilisation, a time of passing serenity versus the bold and beautiful creation of life. All of the above was abundant in their magnum opus that is 2007’s Parades, a record which gained full marks on these very pages. – Drowned in Sound
Copenhagen's Efterklang offer near-excruciatingly lovely, frozen slabs of ambient wintry wonder world cloaked in sustained airy drones and tiny electronic crackles like the crunch of twigs beneath the boots as one treks across the tundra. The evocative atmospheres that pervade their new Magic Chairs album (4AD) are the result of tastefully picturesque orchestrations twined with signal processors and studio atmospherics, along with a raft of excellent melodies, which they're not as often credited for. Engineer/producer Gareth Jones (Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Depeche Mode, Grizzly Bear, Wire) and the band's electronics man, Mads Brauer, should win a Grammy for this effort — the album's a lot of things, but, at the very least, perhaps the best-sounding record of the year so far. - John Payne, LA Weekly
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