Enterprising as the backstory is, it also accounts for the low fidelity of the document, even as commercially issued by 4AD.

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On its moving, insistent "Piramida" (4AD), Efterklang uses a variety of electronic sounds, brass, inventive percussion and layered voices under lead singer Casper Clausen for its moody chamber pop.

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She moved to London to work the 'alt-folk' and singer-songwriter circuits, although in a fairly unfolky manner she's attracted the attention of Bauhaus's Peter Murphy and Mike Mason of Swallow (1990s 4AD act), who both speak highly of her.

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