Band Of The Day #12 - EFTERKLANG "Him Poe Poe"/"Cutting Ice To Snow" (Hulk remix)
Ranking highly in DiS’s best albums of 2007 list, Danish collective Efterklang’s second album Parades is the sort of modern classic that only considered listens and time committed can unravel. It’s an album brimming with invention, with an electronic soul set against a heart of darkest blood, rich and warm. Nods to Björk and Sigur Rós afford newcomers a degree of accessibility, while fans of their debut, Tripper, will find similar rewards are to be had with this follow-up given sufficient attention.
Here, we’ve one track from Parades and a special remix of the album’s closer. ‘Him Poe Poe’ will give the uninitiated an insight into Efterklang’s sublime crafting of affecting wall-of-sound arrangements, while the understated re-working of ‘Cutting Ice To Snow’ by Hulk sees the album’s most traditional-sounding number stripped of its jaunty acoustic strum and moulded into a piano-led delight.
Download: Efterklang - 'Him Poe Poe'
Download: Efterklang - 'Cutting Ice To Snow' (Hulk remix)
Feature - Efterklang: eclectic Danes on domestic Parades
Review - Efterklang - Parades (10/10)
- Mike Diver
