Efterklang Inspired by a Coal Mining Settlement

The World

The World’s Clark Boyd profiles the Danish trio Efterklang. The band headed to the far north to find sounds for their latest album, “Piramida.” They ended up in an abandoned Russian coal mining settlement on Spitsbergen.

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