Kliffs share their single, “Alibi,” along with a music video to accompany the release
Kliffs, the Berlin-based duo of two Canadians: Mark Bérubé and Kristina Koropecki, release their sophomore album After the Flattery on February 10th. Today they share the latest single and video to be taken from the album “Alibi.”
“Alibi is an exercise in empathy,” explains Mark. “It’s me in my living room trying to understand the mechanics of those who see the world, and our reason for being here, in a completely different way from myself. Where one tries to build, another wants to blow it up.”
Mark (guitar, keys, voice) and Kristina (cello, synths, voice) met twelve years ago in an improvised Montréal rehearsal space when Kristina joined Mark’s solo project. They toured together with Mark’s band numerous times across Canada and Europe, eventually relocating to Berlin, Germany, in 2014. After a brief hiatus for other projects, the two teamed up again in 2018 as a duo under their new name KLIFFS and released their first album, Temporary Cures, in November 2019.
Geographically, they create Montreal music in Berlin. Musically, they compose songs better suited to late-night inner-city bike rides and shy dancers. Lyrically, they write recycled tone poems that harness the thoughts of the perpetually bemused and the intensity of soft earthquakes.
Kliffs are seasoned and skilled musicians and have acquired the craft of joining their instruments and their voices together to form a delicate balance in their songs. Kristina’s classical music training and her boundless curiosity for all new sounds perfectly compliment Mark’s reverence of time-honoured song-craft where lyrics take centre-stage.