EFTERKLANG TRIPPER ALBUM LEAF, DOTSHOP.SE RELEASE: OCTOBER 25, 2004 REVIEW: NOVEMBER 18, 2004

It starts with something that sounds like what a cold winter night would sound like, if you could hear it that is. Somewhere a signal is going out to space to see if we are alone or not. And after the buzz and crackle of low key feedback, we are answered by strings so heavenly beautiful it is – at that moment – certain that God and the celestial host (who starts to sing) exist.
That is just the first two and a half minutes of what Danish Efterklang’s (after noise, reverberation in English) album "Tripper" sounds like. It should surprise few that ten-piece Efterklang holds within its ranks members of Sígur Rós. The surprise should instead be how you could have missed an album as heavenly beautiful, haunting and disturbing as this. Efterklang treats us with a mix of voices, beats, buzzings, pianos, horns and strings in something that is best described as electronica goes dub goes Björk goes far out into space and comes back with beautiful melodies. But, as you can tell, "Tripper" defies description. You must listen to it, sink into it, revel in it. Alone, in a dark room.
This is beauty distilled into music.

KALLE MALMSTEDT