Efterklang are offering up the new track "Apples" for free streaming/download: http://efterklang.net/home/2012/09/05/new-song-listen-to-apples-from-piramida/
As mentioned before, the band's new album "Piramida" will be released on September 24 via /.
Check out this trailer for the upcoming Efterklang album "Piramida", due out this September via /. The clip features footage of the band in the abandoned Russian island of Spitsbergen, an Arctic island near the north pole where the namesake ghost town of Pyramiden is located.
Efterklang will be closing down their label , except to release their own albums at home in Denmark/Scandinavia: http://rumraket.tumblr.com/post/6313444049/new-canon-blue-record-the-end-of-rumraket
The label's final non-Efterklang release will be US artist Canon Blue's sophomore album "Rumspringa", due out August 29. Read more commentary from Efterklang bassist/manager Rasmus Stolberg at Gaffa: http://gaffa.dk/nyhed/50093
Efterklang has reissued their first two albums "Tripper" and "Parades" in new, expanded 2CD versions via their own label : http://rumraket.tumblr.com/post/1002675899/three-new-efterklang-releases-out-now
The band's new single "Raincoats" b/w "Harmonics" has just been released digitally as well.
"Private cinema" from Denmark's Slaraffenland is a very smart record, as accessible as it is 'avant-garde'. There is a fair amount of experimentation, but Slaraffenland take many opportunities to find buried melodies and beauty even in the less conventional tracts of noise, their more exploratory segments, or moments of near-free form jazz. Stand out tracks like "Paranoid polaroids", "Watch out", and the magnificent closer "How far would you go" incorporate the strongest elements of the group, creating brilliant pieces that build and build, ending too soon, even as a few pass the five-minute marker. The only track on the record I could have done without is the completely unnecessary "Groen"; less of a song really than two minutes of bizarre noises, not 'noise' in the sense of the oft-misunderstood genre (which, ironically, the counterpart song "Roed" explores), just clamor with no direction whatsoever. Despite this minor failing, "Private cinema" has quickly become one of my favorite records - artier than the Arcade Fire, while still reachable and understandable in ways that some members of this experimental genre are not.
- Lars Garvey Laing-Peterson