Name: Windflowers
Brand: Efterklang

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

LP-SLANG-50366LE

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Colour

Clear

Colour details

Clear Vinyl

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Download code

Download code: Yes

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2021-10-22

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

4250506840495

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / clear

LP-SLANG-50366

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Black

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4250506840235

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

CD-SLANG-50366

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Download code: No

2021-10-08

4250506840228

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Efterklang

Genre US

Post Rock

Label US

City Slang

Efterklang is an experimental indie/post-rock/orchestral band hailing from Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in December 2000, the band has been captivating audiences with their unique sound and innovative approach to music.
With influences ranging from *múm* and *The Album Leaf* to *Sigur Rós* and *Seabear*, Efterklang has carved out a distinct niche for themselves in the music industry. Their mesmerizing compositions blend elements of orchestral arrangements with electronic beats, creating a truly immersive sonic experience.
Over the years, Efterklang has collaborated with talented artists such as *Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson*, *Peter Broderick*, and *Balmorhea*. Their discography boasts critically acclaimed albums that have garnered praise from both fans and critics alike. From their early releases like "Tripper" to more recent works like "Piramida," Efterklang continues to push boundaries and defy genre conventions.

For over twenty years, Efterklang have been pushing the barriers of experimental, electronic, emotional chamber-pop. Announcing their sixth studio album Windflowers, their first for City Slang, the Danish trio of Mads Brauer, Rasmus Stolberg and Casper Clausen continue a creative journey that’s brought them closer together, even as their lives grow apart. Channeling the motifs of hope and change its namesake flora represents, the album sees their many years of collaboration and experimentation distilled into some of their finest and most direct melodic moments to date.

With their ability to bring in guests and session musicians restricted, Efterklang had to challenge their usual creative process and accept their own limitations. Recorded over the course of five trips to residential studio Real Farm on the island of Møn, south of Copenhagen, the genesis of Windflowers was back to basics and became an exercise in putting their vast and dynamic experience to play. The album finds Casper singing in English again, for the most part. It’s rich and intimate, the sound of three friends finding each other at a time when the world around them felt unstable. The record is about existing, alone, together and in nature. It’s about reconnecting, and letting each other grow. 

Efterklang’s constant innovation and openness for collaborating extends past the band’s core members and into the world of the listener. Now sharing new music through their Developed platform, fans are invited to collaborate and respond as they listen to the new tracks for the first time. Collaboration and community has always been the compass of Efterklang, and the group keeps looking for new ways to build a meaningful correspondence with their audience, to be inventive and inclusive. “We don’t want to play to people, we want to perform and make music with people,” Rasmus explains.

After all their years together, Mads, Casper and Rasmus share the real intimacy of family. Windflowers is proof that connection and community can triumph over adversity, and the result is something truly beautiful.

Windflowers

Music US

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