Danish Experimental Act Efterklang Announce New Album; Share Lead Single “Living Other Lives” Ahead Of Live Stream Concert

Danish mainstay experimental trio Efterklang have announced their sixth studio album, ‘Windflowers’, will be released on October 8th through their new signing to City Slang. For over twenty years, Efterklang have been pushing the barriers of experimental, electronic, emotional chamber-pop. The 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. Leading the announcement is the tranquil and dense lead single “Living Other Lives” and its accompanying music video.

Speaking on the 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.”

Director Søren Lynggaard Andersen says of the process making the video, “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.

Efterklang have also confirmed a live stream concert on June 27th in addition to tour dates across Europe throughout late 2021 and early 2022 (dates just past).

Watch the music video below:

Tour dates:

2021
June 27th – Sommertræf live stream concert – Tickets
Oct 14 Malmö, SE – Babel – Tickets
Oct 16 Gothenburg, SE – Pustervik – Tickets
Oct 17 Stockholm, SE – Slaktkyrkan – Tickets
Oct 19 Bergen, NO – Kulturhuset – Tickets
Oct 20 Oslo, NO – Blå – Tickets
Oct 22 Helsinki, FI – Kuudes Linja – Tickets
Oct 23 Tallinn, EE – Kino Sõprus – Tickets
Oct 24 Cēsis, LV – Cēsis Concert Hall
Oct 27 Lodz, PL – Art Kombinat / Monopolis – Tickets
Oct 28 Wrocław, PL – Concert Hall of Radio Wrocław – Tickets
Nov 17 Aarhus, DK – Musikhuset Store Sal – Tickets
Nov 18 Odense, DK – Magasinet – Tickets
Nov 19 Aalborg, DK – Musikkens Hus – Tickets
Nov 21 Copenhagen, DK – Operaen – Tickets

2022
Jan 28 Leeds, UK – Howard Assembly Room – Tickets
Jan 29 Newcastle, UK – Sage Gateshead – Tickets
Feb 16 Hamburg, DE – Uebel & Gefahrlich – Tickets
Feb 17 Nürnberg, DE – Z-Bau – Tickets
Feb 18 Berlin, DE – Metropol – Tickets
Feb 19 Prague, CZ – Meet Factory – Tickets
Feb 21 Vienna, AT – Theater Akzent – Tickets
Feb 22 Budapest, HU – Akvarium Klub – Tickets
Feb 23 Ljubljana, SI – Kino Siska – Tickets
Feb 24 Munich, DE – Strom – Tickets
Feb 25 Bologna, IT – Locomotiv Club – Tickets
Feb 26 Zürich, CH – Bogen F – Tickets
Mar 01 London, UK – EartH – Tickets
Mar 02 Manchester, UK – Gorilla – Tickets
Mar 03 Bristol, UK – St. George – Tickets
Mar 04 Paris, FR – Café de la Danse – Tickets
Mar 05 Brussels, BE – Orangerie Botanique – Tickets
Mar 06 Eindhoven, NL – Paterskerk – Tickets
Mar 08 Amsterdam, NL – Zonnehuis – Tickets
Mar 09 Cologne, DE – Kulturkirche – Tickets