Alter Echo

Alter Echo, released in March 2020, is the fourth album and reached number two in Denmark. Four years on from the last one, they were no longer a comeback band but a working one. The grunge-adjacent feel of the 1990s was deliberately set aside, and what came instead was alternative hard rock with progressive leanings. Tim Christensen's voice and guitar move between heavy riffing and fine melodic writing, and the back half of the record runs as something close to a suite. The verdict came back in a concrete form. In 2021 it took the GAFFA Award for Danish rock album of the year, and Christensen himself was named songwriter of the year — twenty-two years after the break-up and six after the re-activation. An instrumental version of the album followed in 2022. Complexity never becomes the point, and the melody holds all the way through; that has been consistent since 1994.