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Oct 17, 2012As the listener, you're welcome to have a look around, but the music never lets you doubt for one second that that's all you are: a persona non grata, simply awarded a cursory glance at an otherwise undisturbed time capsule.
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Oct 15, 2012This is a great effort from a band that is still learning what it can do.
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Oct 11, 2012The result is an record of rare beauty, like catching a glimpse of an uncommonly beautiful sunset or a finely crafted ice sculpture.
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Oct 11, 2012By finding the beauty in isolation, Efterklang have made their most triumphant record yet.
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Oct 10, 2012This is the sound of a band once again setting a course for personal creative development and revelling in its every ambitious step.
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Oct 8, 2012The thorough arrangements on Piramida continue to be the reason to come to an Efterklang disc, but they are rarely matched with equally strong pop components.
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Oct 3, 2012In short, Efterklang could've made this entire record, and certainly that trio of great musique concrète songs, in their bathroom. Easily.
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Sep 28, 2012There are well-defined marks of maturity in every aspect on this record.
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Sep 27, 2012Piramida's faults lie in the gaps. Each track stands on its own; they begin slow and end long, which isn't an issue until it becomes a pattern.
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Sep 25, 2012Knowing the story behind Piramida's recording process does not ruin the horror movie or give away the ending. It does, however, adds a plotline to the wordless emotions the tracks evoke.
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Sep 24, 2012The fact that Efterklang have managed to cultivate such an effortless sounding exercise in sonic geographies is sheer testament to their skill as master artisans.
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Sep 24, 2012The unlikely marriage of cold, Bowie-in-Berlin-esque funk and maximized random sound snippets comes off as the most natural and lovely expression of hopeful despair imaginable. Much of the record follows this incredibly nuanced path, giving it uniquely brittle atmosphere, and ranking among the band's best work.
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Sep 24, 2012Piramida is undoubtedly the band's most immediate work to date and it might be strange to be writing it, but nearly each and every track would work standing on its own.
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Sep 24, 2012Destined for the 'obscure, kinda interesting' slot come end-of-year list time.
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Sep 21, 2012It is hard not to be a little dismayed to see that Efterklang have settled for what is likely the least daring--if perhaps not the least lucrative--path going forward.
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Sep 21, 2012A fully realised work of intellect and warmth.
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Sep 20, 2012[Efterklang] glisten on the restless, bass-led groove of The Ghost and rack up the tension on a nourish Black Summer. Their eclectic style, however, demands space to breathe, and shorter songs, like The Living Layer and Dreams Today, which starts as a sprint but ends up puffed out, are left wanting.
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Sep 20, 2012Whereas 2009′s Missing Chairs carried a prissy frivolity in its floridness, Piramida is a noble, self-possessed creation; a masterclass in considered arrangement.
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Sep 19, 2012This see-saw, between exquisite gloom and bruised hope, is part of what makes Piramida so powerful.
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Sep 19, 2012As polished as a beach stone, it's a subtle, startling work.
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MojoSep 19, 2012Despite the elegant grey-sky thinking, deep beneath the emotional permafrost, Piramida isn't as cold as it seems. [Oct 2012, p.86]
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Q MagazineSep 19, 2012Here's a band on top of the world, and on top of their game. [Oct 2012, p.98]