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- Summary: The Danish band's second full-length album features 30 guest musicians.
- Record Label: Leaf
- Genre(s): Rock, Experimental
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Positive: 11 out of 14
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Mixed: 3 out of 14
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Negative: 0 out of 14
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Seriously: this is one of 2007’s finest LPs, no question.
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Parades, both restrained and wildly dramatic, gently touching and warmly enveloping, is not a record that sits comfortably with convenient labels.
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Efterklang have managed to locate the sweet spot where the organic meets the electronic, and have carefully stuffed each track full to bursting point with a gorgeous mix that at times seems to require a new musical format, just to deal with the sheer bandwidth of sonic invention on display here.
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Parades' recipe--soft verse, big chant, heavenly "aaaaaaaaa", elliptical, Nordic orchestrations, stir--is clever to avoid repetition but extremely taxing.
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It harnesses large spaces, allowing songs like 'Caravan' to blossom into something more orchestral than you'd expect; fitting for a band whose name translates as 'reverberation.'
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The album complements each situation differently, and new elements become apparent with each listen.
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Q MagazineThere's nothing so prosaic as choruses, but there's warmth to spare. [Nov 2007, p.137]
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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RockyBNov 25, 2007Is it just me, or is the band name 'Efterklang' somewhat similar to 'Ester Drang'?
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