Skyphone

Skyphone: Avellaneda

by John Kelman
April 27, 2008

Following up its 2004 Rune Grammofon debut, Fabula, Skyphone's Avellaneda may be the most beautiful near-pop record of 2008. This Danish trio makes music so song-like that it could, with added lyrics and a different approach to production, easily exist in the kind of dreamy experimental post-rock terrain of Iceland's Sigur Rós. In its seamless integration of technology and acoustic instrumentation it shares much with Norways's Svalastog and the profound Woodwork (Rune Grammofon, 2006), but there's a more definitive compositional ...