NEW VINYL LP ON 4AD 2012 180 GRAM VINYL INCL. CD. In August of 2011, members of Danish indie electro band Efterklang traveled to the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, an abandoned Russian settlement near the North Pole. In Spitsbergen they spent time in the abandoned mining town of Piramida recording sounds in and around the decaying remnants of the leftover industrial remnants, including huge silos acting as reverb tanks and the world's northernmost piano. This audio expedition yielded more than 1,000 sound samples that the band would build this record (also named Piramida after the village) around, but moreover, the trip to the cold and isolated ghost town far from any semblance of civilization seems to have informed the icy feel of this gorgeously crafted album.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efterklang Tracklist 1 HOLLOW MOUNTAIN 2 APPLES 3 SEDNA 4 TOLD TO BE FINE 5 THE LIVING LAYER 6 THE GHOST 7 BLACK SUMMER 8 DREAMS TODAY 9 BETWEEN THE WALLS 10 MONUMENT
