Photo: Dennis Morton
Longtime favourite band Efterklang are back with their sixth studio, following 2019´s stunning Altid Sammen. Entitled Windflowers, the new album sees the trio of Mads Brauer, Casper Clausen and Rasmus Stolberg continue to venture in new and thrilling musical territories, “embracing their distinct pop sensibilities and creating their finest melodic moments to date”, as the press release explains.
Windflowers will see the light of day on October 8th through City Slang and ahead of it they have shared the first gorgeous single, ‘Living Other Lives’. About this track Casper comments:
“Living other lives started out as a jam in my Lisbon studio during Spring 2020 lockdown. I was playing around with my 404 sampler and I found that kind of groove that makes my head bop – put some samples on it, and I could listen to it forever – a good sign. So I was just having that on loop while scrolling through my instagram feed. The lyrics sort of came out of that moment; living other lives, imagination jumping from one life/image to another, revisiting, updating myself, absolutely bodiless, while scrolling up and up with my thumb. It’s a fascinating world we’re living in, so strangely symbiotic and aware of what everybody’s doing, I feel I’m living multiple lives all at once. Watching all these people expressing and changing themselves far away, out there around the planet.”
‘Living Other Lives’ is offered with a video directed by Søren Lynggaard Andersen, who added:
“I visited Efterklang in the studio when they were in the process of recording their new album. I had packed this old russian 16mm camera and I wasn’t even sure if the camera actually worked, but thankfully it did (sort of). The video that came out of it I feel is a charming and genuine look at the band together in the studio and in the nature of the island of Møn in the south of Denmark.”
Watch the video now.
In other related news, Efterkland have also announced a live stream concert on June 27th as well as several live dates across Europe later this year and early 2022.