Hope you’re all enjoying yourself with family, champagne, coffee, friends, painkillers or whoever or whatever is around you today. Our tiny band have completely split up, for the cause of holiday, being literally spread all over the world. Thomas in Thailand, Rasmus in Istanbul, Casper in Toronto and Mads taking care of business in Copenhagen.

Guess we needed a little break from each other or just simply a little time with someone else. After all, we’ve been seeing the world collectively nearly everyday for the past couple of years, and very soon we’ll be joining forces again (tour dates 2010).

Wow! An entire decade just passed by, and the slipstream of nostalgia just reached our shore. From the view from our nose tips, it’s been a very very special one! Mainly because there was no Efterklang a decade ago, and secondly because we’re having the time of our life!

Lets look ahead. Just around the corner, on February 22nd (23rd in the US) 2010, we’ll release our 3rd studio album: Magic Chairs, coming out on our very own Rumraket label in Scandinavia and our brand new home 4AD in the rest of the world.

We’re ULTRA EXCITED to present it for you!!!

Here is a Happy New Year Video Postcard from our 4 corners of the world to all of you sweet people. The postcard includes 4 snippets of songs from Magic Chairs. Enjoy!

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OF YOU & YOURS. SEE YOU SOOOOON!!!

Rasmus, Mads, Thomas, Casper

Video postcard from Efterklang – Happy New Year!

A new year will soon arrive and in this new year a new Efterklang album will arrive.
To embrace these nice and future events Efterklang.net has just been giving a new design by Hvass&Hannibal.

We hope you like the new design and will like 2010 and our forthcoming album!
- Efterklang

Hello Sweet Friends!!!!

February 22nd (23rd in the US) 2010 we release our third album Magic Chairs and we can´t wait!!! (free download and album details can be found here)

But lets talk about concerts now! We can announce 24 new concerts today!! We will go on tour with our new 7-piece live band consisting of yours truly (Mads, Casper, Thomas and Rasmus) and then with the addition of Heather W. Broderick, her brother Peter Broderick and long time friend Frederik Teige. These three people also play an important part on our new album btw.

February 2010
19th – By:Larm Festival, Oslo Norway (info)
20th – By:Larm Festival, Oslo Norway (info)

March
2nd – First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia PA USA, support: Balmorhea
3rd – Le Poisson Rouge, New York NY USA, support: Balmorhea
4th – TT The Bears, Boston MA USA, support: Balmorhea
5th – La Sala Rosa, Montreal PQ Canada, support: Balmorhea
6th – El Mocambo, Toronto ONT Canada, support: Balmorhea
7th – The Pike Room, Detroit MI USA, support: Balmorhea
8th – Lincoln Hall, Chicago IL USA, support: Balmorhea
11th – The Triple Door, Seattle WA USA, support: Balmorhea
12th – Biltmore, Vancouver BC Canada, support: Balmorhea
13th – Doug Fir, Portland OR USA, support: Balmorhea
15th – Bottom Of The Hill, San Francisco CA USA, support: Balmorhea
16th – Spaceland, Los Angeles CA USA, support: Balmorhea

April
20th – Concorde 2, Brighton UK (£10 advance /£12 door – ticket info)
21st – Shepherds Bush Empire, London UK (£15 – ticket info)
22nd – O2 Academy, Oxford UK (£10 advance /£12 door – ticket info)
23rd – Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh UK (£10 advance – ticket info)
24th – Black Box, Belfast UK (£10 advance – ticket info)
25th – Whelan’s, Dublin IE (€17.50 advance – ticket info)
27th – Metropolis, Bristol UK (£8 advance – ticket info)
28th – Nouveau Casino, Paris France
29th – Grand Mix, Tourcoing (Lille) France
30th – VIP, Saint Nazaire (Nantes) France

May
1st – Centrifugeuse, Pau France
2nd – La [2] de Apolo, Barcelona Spain (€15/18 – ticket info)

More to come…

photo by Colin Quinn, Manchester 2009

Today we can announce the release date, tracklist, artwork and title of our new album! We are also happy to tell you that you can download the opening song for free right now!

February 22nd 2010 we will release our third full length album and we are exited! We’re calling this new baby for Magic Chairs and we are curious to find out how you will like it as it definitely introduces a new Efterklang sound.

We have been working on the album since January 2009 and we have played and tested several of the new songs on the road throughout the year on our different tours. We recorded the album in Feedback Recording studio in Århus and in Black Tornado, STC Studio and our own studio (all three) in Copenhagen. The record is mixed by our new friend Gareth Jones (Depeche Mode, Nick Cave & Grizzly Bear) and I think we dare to say that we are very proud of it!

Magic Chairs is our first album on our new home 4AD. This fine and legendary label will release Magic Chairs across the globe except for Scandinavia where we will release the album on our own Rumraket label.

Tracklist:
01: Modern Drift
02: Alike
03: I Was Playing Drums
04: Raincoats
05: Harmonics
06: Full Moon
07: The Soft Beating
08: Scandinavian Love
09: Mirror Mirror
10: Natural Tune

Magic Chairs is out February 22nd 2010 – we hope you will like it!

As usual Hvass&Hannibal have made the artwork for the new album and we totally love what they came up with!

xoxoxox
Mads, Casper, Thomas and Rasmus