DDOA: “Modern Drift” by Efterklang
Since I’m feeling too lazy to come up with a description of this song beyond “I love it,” here’s a blurb from Pitchfork about it:
A Glass-like piano figure begins the stately piece and coaxes out the rest of the melody like animals faltering out of their dens after a long freeze. Like many Efterklang tracks, it pays to observe the trees after reveling the forest. For example, the kick drum begins slightly countered to Casper Clausen’s vocals, before wonderfully synching with the last words of every verse. Later, violinists scrape their strings and tap on instrument bodies, and that piano line nimbly morphs into a bleepy electronic beat and back into its original form.
Efterklang has officially replaced The Fashion as my favorite Danish band.
