Efterklang announce new album, Things We Have In Common

"Plant" is accompanied by a video directed and created by Søren Lynggaard and Niels Buhl Hendriksen, and takes the creative play with still and live photos seen in the "Getting Reminders" video to a whole new level.

Vocalist Casper Clausen explains that "Plant" is “a song dedicated to the act of reaching out, beyond ourselves, daring to go beyond our inner world and share ourselves with others, putting our vulnerability on display, like a plant reaching for the light. This is one of the first songs we wrote for the new album, and it’s been a long journey, starting from a sketch by our longtime friend, collaborator, and co-founder of Efterklang, pianist Rune Mølgaard.”

Collaborator Mabe Fratti says recording "Plant" with Efterklang “was extremely joyful as I remember witnessing the song developing when I went with Efterklang to Sommertræf two years ago. It’s a breeze, this song. I felt that Casper’s tone and mine are super friendly with each other!”

With their newest record, Efterklang close the circle that began with their 2019 album Altid Sammen and continued with 2021’s Windflowers. Pianist and composer Rune Mølgaard formed Efterklang with the three members but left after their 2007 sophomore record Parades.

During the years of his absence from the band, Rune fell in love with a woman who had grown up in the Mormon Church and found his spiritual side awakened, embracing the religion with his body and soul. Yet as time passed, Rune found it increasingly difficult to keep his newfound faith and eventually his belief crumbled under the weight of his unanswered questions. Finally, in 2022, he broke with the Mormon Church. Although Efterklang had invited Rune to work with them on Things We Have In Common before he left the church, after he left their relationship intensified.

“Towards the end of the album process we talked about belonging, in relation to Rune’s journey - how he no longer found that feeling in the church,” explains Rasmus of the album’s title. “We talked about how Casper’s sense of belonging is tied to something nomadic, and about how Mads and I associate this with our families.” But all of them find a home in music. “It became a completely therapeutic process for me,” says Rune of his experience writing the record. “When we write music together, it happens from a genuinely curious place, in a shared experience of the moment.”

Tracklist:

1. Balancing Stones
2. Plant
3. Getting Reminders
4. Ambulance
5. Leave It All Behind
6. Animated Heart
7. Shelf Break
8. Sentiment
   
9. To A New Day