Efterklang News: Efterklang: Magic Chairs

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New beginnings beckon for the Danish classically-inspired alternative post-rock band as they move to a new home - 4AD Records - and seemingly, a new genre.

With album number three, Efterklang have defiantly shifted away from what was already staked as 'their niche'. Magic Chairs is an often triumphant attempt to fuse together classical instrumentation with ambient and the more sober post-rock textures. This paradigmatic deviation places the Danes much closer to a more conventional approach to indie rock. Although on occasion it does leave them stuck in the wastelands between: lacking the melodic pop melodies while simultaneously pulling away from...