Tripper

Efterklang | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 2, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: The Leaf Label
• ASIN: B0002Y4SV6
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #265,160 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Evokes both lonely wilderness expanses and intimate nights accompanied by nothing but your thoughts. The spectral atmospheres created by Sigur Ros haunt Efterklang's sound like ghosts. Leaf Label. 2004.

Customer Reviews

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars more icelandic beauty, November 23, 2004

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somethingexcellent (Lincoln, NE United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tripper (Audio CD)

I'm always a bit humbled when I find out about large group entities like Efterklang. I know how hard it is sometimes to share and expand ideas in a group of 5, so when I see that Efterklang doubles that as a 10-piece, I simply wonder how they do it. Arriving from Denmark (who has seen their fair share of solid artists in the past couple years with Manual and others), Efterklang mixes strings, vocals, electronics, and more traditional instrumentation into a sometimes-epic sonic output that recalls groups like Múm and even the Rachel's.

For having such a large number of people in the group, they manage to keep things remarkably restrained, sometimes even to the point of frustration. The opening track of "Foetus" builds slowly with filtered electronics and string washes and basically serves as a warm-up to the release while "Swarming" mixes clicky programming with plenty of layered vocals, and the track never really breaks loose, instead working with very subtle builds and falls. "Step Aside" finally gets a bit more aggressive as growling programming mixes with deft vocals and strings as the track builds into a series of stunning punctuations of orchestral electronic pop.

"Prey And Predator" works in many of the same ways, toying with the listener for almost 5 minutes as glinting electronics click and spray before the track finally closes with a flourish of horns and strings that make the wait almost worth it. In listening to Tripper, one rarely gets the feeling that the group is indeed such a large entity. While at some points the tracks swell with the sound that only a large amount of people can create, the group doesn't seem to break loose nearly enough. The ambient "Dopplegänger" is pretty enough, but like several other tracks on the release, the quieter songs simply don't stack up to the more developed ones. Closing things out on a strong note, "Chapter 6" takes the frenetic programming, male/female vocals, strings, and horns and stirs them into one final track that moves through several different sections and ends things beautifully. Considering this is their full-length debut (they had one other self-released EP), there's a lot of promise from the young group.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Like A Spaceship, February 18, 2005

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Adam M. Powers "Gutten" (Palo Alto, Ca) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tripper (Audio CD)

This will take you away to another planet all together. If you like the likes of sigur ros, mum, or any really intricate, beautiful music this is an AMAZING album. Your ears will be thoroughly massaged!

3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Album of the year- 2004, August 3, 2005

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Andrew Torrance (Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tripper (Audio CD)

This band has completly blown me away with this release...
I find myself listening to this CD over and over again and enjoying it more and more each time...
Bueatiful, instrinsic and complicated; yet never overdone or overblown...a true gem.
Truly the essential album of 2004.