Tripper

Tripper was Efterklang's ambitious debut album, originally released in 2004. The album whispers like thunder, combining transcendent melodies with glacial strings and piano, febrile electronics, hushed male-female vocals and a Greenlandic choir. A year in the making, the album is intense and dramatic; intimate yet coolly detached. More info: www.theleaflabel.com/en/releases/view/102/Efterklang/Tripper/BAY%2040CD

Leaf presents the debut LP from a Danish 10-piece who create music that settles somewhere between the elegant minimalism of Max Richter, the chamber music of Rachel's, and Godspeed! You Black Emperor's more contemplative moments.

But if you've ever hitchhiked across an Alps plateau in the middle of the night, with the slightest shade of dark and darker separating the hills and the sky, then you know that Tripper, by the Danish ten-piece ensemble Efterklang, would have been the perfect soundtrack.