Tripper

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Total Tracks: 9   Total Length: 50:36

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Nice place

AdamBlake

The Alps may not be in Denmark, but this music comes from, and leads me to a beautiful place.

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Geography

ElMig

Um, since when are the Alps in Denmark?

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Impressive

jmahle

I was very skeptical of this at first. But. Beautiful.

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efterklang gets p-1 seal of approval

p.one

i love this band. this is one of those albums that will confuse people who don't understand it.

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a classic

blueclouder

delicate and absorbing. read the allmusic review, where it describes the album as walking at night in the snow across the mountains. gorgeous album.

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Magnificent

dnnyboy

I got this a long time ago and I still listen to it all the time. It truly is beautiful. Get it now. You won't regret it!

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It’s easy, simple, and at this point downright redundant to point out how an Icelandic act like Sigur Rós mimics the icy mountains of its frozen home. But if you’ve ever hitchhiked across an Alps plateau in the middle of the night, with the slightest shade of dark and darker separating the hills and the sky, then you know that Tripper, by the Danish ten-piece ensemble Efterklang, would have been the perfect soundtrack. In this place, the minimal hush of objects is so large that their very existence vibrates. Efterklang take that hush and decorate it with male and female vocals, whispered so as to not awake the sleeping glaciers. Barely perceivable electronic cells sit near absolute zero, as if left frozen on the ice banks of Mars. You can even hear the melodic sound of you breath’s water molecules crystallizing to ice inside your nose. String arrangements by Iceland’s Amina Ensemble reinforce the link with similar Arctic acts, but they also give the sole indication of some warmth and light out there after six months in the dark. It’s not all nature’s wonders and northern lights. People live in those mountains, too. – Joshua Glazer

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