Röyksopp - The Understanding

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Oh, I guess it's the b-side for "Only This Moment".

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 27 June 2001 02:42 (twenty-three years ago)

The show last night was the motherfucking shit, btw

― Stuh-du-du-du-du-du-du-denka (jingleberries), Wednesday, 27 June 2001 02:46 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

Röyksopp Announce Details of New Album

Caroline Bermudez reports:
A Nordic blast of downtempo electronica will hit hot American shores on June 28, when Röyksopp release The Understanding on Astralwerks. It will be released in the UK on June 27 on Wall of Sound. When asked by European music industry magazine Music Week how the new album differs from their previous outing, the duo said: "Even though the last one was called Melody A.M., this one is even more about melody."

Röyksopp also revealed in the interview that the new album was more forward-looking than Melody A.M., which was heavily reminiscent of 70s soundtracks.

Lead single "Only This Moment" will be unveiled in the UK on June 13. Röyksopp are currently slated to perform at KCRW's World Music Festival, taking place at the Hollywood Bowl throughout the summer. They, along with Basement Jaxx, will headline the festival's Planet Electronica event on July 17.

Here is the tracklist for The Understanding:

01 Triumphant
02 Only This Moment
03 49 Percent
04 Boys
05 Follow My Ruin
06 Beautiful Day
07 What Else Is There?
08 Circuit Breaker
09 Alpha Male
10 Someone Like You
11 Dead to the World

Looking forward to this.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 04:26 (twenty years ago)

wasn't that taken with anything on melody am, but their remixes (coldplay, beck, the streets) and outside production work (erm, annie?) have been so good that i'm quite anticipating hearing this

― jermaine (jnoble), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 09:32 (twenty years ago)

still rate Melody AM as well as the live show and remixes so looking forward to this. and if H5 do the video for 'Only This Moment' then that's a bonus.

― $V£N! (blueski), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 09:36 (twenty years ago)

Melody AM is AMAZING, so I'm definitely gonna be checking this one out at the first opportunity.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 10:26 (twenty years ago)

i've got some frequencies for you...

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 10:35 (twenty years ago)

OK I'm coming over. I'll be there in two seconds.

(doo-doo... BAM... do, doo-doo... BAM
doo-doo... BAM... do, doo-doo... BAM)

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 10:51 (twenty years ago)

That "I'll be there in two seconds" line sounded incredibly Norwegian btw.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

"Even though the last one was called Melody A.M., this one is even more about melody."

You mean...there's more like you at home?

― Plus-Tech Whiz Kid (Disco) (Barima), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

hot american shores!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

fuck, it's "i want to give you some good frequencies" :(

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

Hmmmm.....I should listen to "Melody AM" later
i remember really enjoying it when it came out

― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

the new single leaked. I'll upload it in a few.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

"Only This Moment":

http://s41.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=13J97M5EPSPGJ08VHT8L7XL2PG

I quite like it. Very pretty.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

the album pulls me between "yuck" and "that was quite nice" but it doesn't seem to have anything remotely like the super-funky 'eple' on it..

― heywood jablomi (heywood), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

Listening to the album right now...lots of vocals, which with their sound is I think a good thing.

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

Who does the vocals on this one?

― mike h. (mike h.), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

Found this on the Wall of Sound site:
It is now time for ‘The Understanding’. Recorded in Bergen, Röyksopp sing on much of their new album. There are also additional vocals from Chelonis R Jones from Get Physical Records (49 Percent), Karin Dreijer from The Knife (What Else Is There?) and new vocalist Kate Havnevik (Only This Moment and Circuit Breaker).

No Annie, looks like.

― mike h. (mike h.), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

this may sound a little close to alice deejay or something for my liking.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

or maybe i like it... i think i don't... i do... not... : (

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

has the album leaked already?

― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

Single is extrememly sugary, almost heading into Kylie territory (not a bad thing, just saying, less disco though).

Totally saved by that little pause to 'okay' and the vocal handovers though. It's cute. A whole album like this?? :( I hope they've kept some of the quirkiness that eventually endeared the previous record to me.

I do like them, but have the weary feeling if this is any good it might take all four singles to convince me (like Melody A.M. finally made me crack with an early morning viewing of the video for 'Sparks' (sob)) to actually bother checking it out.

― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 26 May 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

royksopp always make me want to travel

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

This song is really beautiful.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

It's just packed to the gills with vocal hooks. Maybe a little too dense for some, but I really like how all the voices are stacked on top of each other - reminds me a bit of Todd Edwards in its sad rapturous chorus quality.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

The female vocal part is so sad!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

Melody AM is very special and will always remind me (pun unintentional) of a certain visit at a certain time. I'm hoping the Understanding will be even better. It's been a long time.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

Also, I don't hear anything remotely "Kylie" about this.

Does anyone have the album?????

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 May 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

m4rk r1ch4rds0n claims to

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 26 May 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

is this person on s0u1s33k?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 May 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

no he is on p1tchf0rkm3d14.c0m

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 26 May 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

Listening to the album right now...lots of vocals, which with their sound is I think a good thing.
-- Mark (r-...), May 25th, 2005 3:23 PM. (MarkR) (later)

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 26 May 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

4h, 0k.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 May 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

I have played this song 25 times today.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 May 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

There's a part of the male vocal that's vocodered and autotuned and sounds like a cross between the vocodered bit in "Bizarre Love Triangle" and "Digital Love".

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 May 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

Yawn. Can't wait for all 10,000 of the inevitable crappy trance and progressive house remixes of this.

― jotai, Thursday, 26 May 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

Yuck.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 May 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

here's the braxe and falke remix -

http://s21.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=202WHFVS2058V2X8DUCDZMD8T8

― stirmonsterr, Thursday, 26 May 2005 23:04 (twenty years ago)

Nice, but seems unrelated.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 May 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

i have the album, and firstworldman's comment fits it perfectly. one minute i'm grooving along and the next i'm kinda repulsed. one one occasion it's the vocal i don't specifically like, but a few of the tracks are quite good. but i'm a hater and i'm sure you lot will eat it up.

― heywood jablomi (heywood), Friday, 27 May 2005 03:42 (twenty years ago)

this kinda blows

― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Friday, 27 May 2005 03:53 (twenty years ago)

Questions for the haters:

Why does it make you "yawn"?

Why does it "blow"?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 27 May 2005 05:20 (twenty years ago)

Cover. Thumbs up or thumbs down?

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0009F2C98.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 27 May 2005 05:23 (twenty years ago)

Hmm. It's a little like if the cover of Madonna's "The power of goodbye" wandered onto the set of her "Frozen" video shoot.

― brittle-lemon, Friday, 27 May 2005 05:28 (twenty years ago)

the single is just too emo for me, i'm not digging it. the tune with chelonis on the album is killer though - broken beats! this little snare hit that comes in every 32 bars makes me think it's going to launch into 'bombscare'. the tune is hot.

― heywood jablomi (heywood), Friday, 27 May 2005 06:48 (twenty years ago)

Dude, quit teasin' and put the Chelonis track on.

― Negativa, True Believer (You know you love it when I'm dressed in drag) (Barima), Friday, 27 May 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

the cover's pretty bad.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 27 May 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

that is one ugly cover

― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Friday, 27 May 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

I like-not-love it.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 27 May 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

If Chelonis sang on every track this album would be amazing. as is the vocals are not so hot on alot of the tunes, and is it just the mp3s or is this actually recorded in a very middy/trebley way and lacking in depth as a result? sounds kind of tinny.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 29 May 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Is it just the mp3s or are you lookin' at me?

― Girls Aloud (We know you love it when we're dressed in drag) (Barima), Sunday, 29 May 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

i love the single. screw y'all.

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 29 May 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

which one is the single? I skipped through this I admit. I will put it on the ipod and see. I think I will like it a bit anyway, just like Melody AM.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 29 May 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

Single is "Only This Moment".

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Sunday, 29 May 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

only this moment = bad trance
braxe / falke mix = good trance

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Sunday, 29 May 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

anyone on slsk with this?

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 29 May 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

The album

― alex in montreal (alex in montreal), Sunday, 29 May 2005 23:04 (twenty years ago)

thank ya!

― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Sunday, 29 May 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

wow...after listening to 3 songs i want to change that "thank ya" to a "FUCK OFF!".

in other words, this couldn't suck more if it tried.

― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Sunday, 29 May 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

i have no problem with tracks 8, 9 and 10, but the rest is pretty dire

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Sunday, 29 May 2005 23:34 (twenty years ago)

How on earth do Royksopp manage to get this ridiculous sheen on their records that completely polishes off all notion of texture or dynamics? Its what bothers me about all non-Eple Royksopp records in that they've strived to make something really pretty and yet they've tried so hard and refined it so much that its just... flat.

What is the difference between this and Moby?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 29 May 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

Moby mostly sucks.

This is mostly superb (the qualifier only because I haven't listened to the whole thing yet). Trebly yes, but in the best way - gasesous, gleaming sound over rubbery rolling lo-end.

The single is superb surely.

― lee ward (lee ward), Monday, 30 May 2005 00:34 (twenty years ago)

whoa, "what else is there?" sounds like royksopp backing kate bush.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 30 May 2005 01:01 (twenty years ago)

this album is mostly poop. things go downhill after the first song. sounds pretty cheese ball...

― dfhjhj, Monday, 30 May 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

so same as the first then?

― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 30 May 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

could somebody resend this please?

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 30 May 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

Uh... strange album cover. It looks so 90's, some kind of strange Tori Amos/Live 'I Alone' action going on.

That said, the coverart on Melody AM wasn't spectacular...

― Mika, Tuesday, 31 May 2005 08:39 (twenty years ago)

the album again

― logg3d out, Tuesday, 31 May 2005 10:31 (twenty years ago)

fanks. can i get that Braxe&Falke remix again too? please?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)

Oh no.

― Negativa, True Believer (You know you love it when I'm dressed in drag) (Barima), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

I...I like it :-(.

I mean, it's not all there, but it's better than Melody AM by 100%. I think the dance gods truly meant for me to get this and Cagedbaby Will See You Now in the same afternoon because they are TOTALLY complementing each other. Though it's not better, Royksopp have more press, but if the album holds up over the week, I'll probably be less than narked about that.

― Negativa, True Believer (You know you love it when I'm dressed in drag) (Barima), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

OK, Matt is right - this album has no edges. I was delighted by the pretty melodies in places, but overall, this is tailormade for MTV dance charts and will be consumed in a big ball of euro cheese. It's wallpaper dance for people who think Mylo is too saucy. And Stevem will probably like it lots.

OTOH, I've listened to the other album I mentioned above about 3 times today. It does the early 90s Balearic blissouts with shitloads more style and grace.

― Negativa, True Believer (You know you love it when I'm dressed in drag) (Barima), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

LOVE that cover. Love the single, too.

And I usually hate them!

― Runner-up, 'Best Person' (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

jesus that was harsh on Steve Barima.........

At the risk of sounding like a dance person, this album doesn't actually sound like it was produced by dance producers, it's very middy and the drum programming is awful throughout.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

That part should have been more smiley-tastic, Ro. You're right.

Better mixing and production would make me get into this more. I do like some Euro trance numbers, but not when they're so toothless in the sounds and stereo departments.

― Steve Barima (Barima), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

i like some of it too, it's quite funky -- upthread i said "but it doesn't seem to have anything remotely like the super-funky 'eple' on it.." but i was wrong, there are lots of intestering rhythmic juxtapositions here and some seriously syncopated beats. it's the vocals i largely have a problem with. chelonis is the only one who i can stand, although there's one later that mr. sopp (whoever he who sings is) sings on that's tolerable.
they definitely amped up the pop factor on this though, and not in a good way.

― heywood jablomi (heywood), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

A very strange record. There's a 2-step song and then a Tears for Fears song and then it gets weird. The single is very pretty, I've been listening to it constantly - I don't know why people keep saying trance as it's much more post-emo Postal Service/Kings of Convenience-y. It's much denser than Melody AM which was basically a very excellent chill-out record, and I'm going to need some more time with it. I think that ILM in general has a difficult time saying things about this kind of bourgeois-dinner-party-coffee-table type music. I will say this record is trying to be "more" than that, and I'm kind of fascinated at how it's difficult to classify.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

I think for me bourgeois dinner party coffee table is something like Hotel Costes or Gotan Project, and this is like dance-lite.

I do really like both Costes and Gotan though. They have a kind of drama about them.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

I guess I was trying to say that their last record was more along those lines while this new one is difficult to pin down. I don't really think of either of their records as very dancey (although I jog almost exclusively to a slightly sped up "Eple" playing in my head).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

What is the track with Chelonis on it called? I don't want to have to download the whole bloody thing....

― Mil (Mil), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

There's this amazing conflicted emotional urgency in "Only This Moment". I love how the verses contradict themselves over the rapidly throbbing bass. It's like what happens to your heart when you first meet someone who may be "the one" but your rational self won't let you forget that intensity like that can never last.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 23:47 (twenty years ago)

It's like what happens to your heart when you first meet someone who may be "the one" but your rational self won't let you forget that intensity like that can never last.

Which is also an excellent description of Annie's "My heartbeat," to which "Only this moment" is, unsurprisingly, a close cousin. The blips make the backing track sound a little bit like Tilt's "Invisible" as well, which is absolutely not a bad thing.

― brittle-lemon, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 01:43 (twenty years ago)

I like the Kate Bush-sounding one, and I like the last song. But I am just not feeling any of the other songs AT ALL. Man is this album disappointing. Melody AM was a goddamn masterpiece!!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)

no one is feeling "alpha male"?

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 02:12 (twenty years ago)

I should note that the lyrics also describe the condition I was talking about - I'm just really into how the music interacts with and compounds the feeling.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 02:41 (twenty years ago)

no one is feeling "alpha male"?

I'm feeling "Circuit breaker," which is, um, right before "Alpha male," if that helps. (It really should have featured Erlend Oye on vocals, though.)

― brittle-lemon, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 03:59 (twenty years ago)

Im feeling FOR the "circuit breaker" as I bid you goonight *

― Jena (JenaP), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 04:06 (twenty years ago)

Me, I'm feeling for the alpha male as I bid you goodnight.

― brittle-lemon, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 06:45 (twenty years ago)

This is growing on me a little. "Beautiful Day Without You" is nice.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

One thing about this, doesn't this album make you realise that Royksopp's stamp is ALL OVER the Annie record? I mean it's so so Annie, almost all of it. Surely they made some of these tracks for Annie? "Beautiful Day Without You" is ABSOLUTELY an Annie track.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)

wow, terribly cheese. what a bummer

― breezy, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

big yes to ronan on the annie thing

― jones (actual), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

"Circuit Breaker" is also beautiful.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 3 June 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

tracks 7-8-9 are all wonderful.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 3 June 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

I love this record.

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

I find Melody AM somewhat boring.

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

The radio edit of "Only This Moment" is better than the slightly expanded album version. The whole stacked up vocals thing works better when there's no room to breathe.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

And yeah, I've been loving the whole thing too, but I like certain Melody AM tracks just as well.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

can someone repost the album pretty please??

― supertwerp (supertwerp), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Great review, Nabisco!

This album has really been the surprise of the year for me. I love it.

― Nevada Lime (nordicskilla), Monday, 11 July 2005 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

So who's going to the show on Sunday?

― Stuh-du-du-du-du-du-du-denka (jingleberries), Monday, 11 July 2005 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

nitsuh abebe = nabisco? loved the review as well, if that's what review you were talking about adam.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 11 July 2005 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

yes, that is him.

― Nevada Lime (nordicskilla), Monday, 11 July 2005 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

yes, thank you adam. always a pleasure.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 11 July 2005 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

no trouble, no trouble at all. On you go.

― Nevada Lime (nordicskilla), Monday, 11 July 2005 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

I keep hearing "Beautiful Day Without You" as the sequel to "Days Go By" by Dirty Vegas.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 11 July 2005 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

Excellent review Nitsuh!!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 11 July 2005 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

Heh, I just wrote N. to compliment him on his "Lost Generation" article and didn't even notice he had the headline review today, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 July 2005 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks! Note also today's funny interview where Josh Homme and Raposa are kicking it like total BFF.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 11 July 2005 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

all the haters need to read that review, good job in describing the two sides of 'only this moment'

― rizzx (rizzx), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

the lost generation article is a great read as well. you're on a roll, don't stop

― rizzx (rizzx), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

So the track "Boys" on the bonus disc is incredible. I remember hearing it before, but can't remember where??? Radio? Is it on a mix? A couple of the other bonus tracks are excellent as well.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 18 July 2005 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

So I've been hearing...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 18 July 2005 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

I can't afford to see them. :(

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 18 July 2005 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

I bought the tshirt!

I was all drunk and was like 'no, that one. the RAINBOW one.'

― Stuh-du-du-du-du-du-du-denka (jingleberries), Monday, 18 July 2005 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

so google just told me that basement jaxx and royksopp played at the hollywood bowl, two minutes from my house, last night.

i'm sorry that i opened this thread. i'm sorry for everything.

― Lukas (lukas), Monday, 18 July 2005 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

I was all drunk and was like 'no, that one. the RAINBOW one.'

Hahaha, you should have got one for Dean.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 18 July 2005 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

I was disapointed the first time i've heard it. But keep on going back to it since.
Though they for sure don't sound like them, Royksopp are the successors of PSB and Saint Etienne.
Can't wait to see them live at the end of the month!
Though it's not my favourite song, the second part of the bridge on "Go Away" is one of the best thing i've heard all year

― Arnault (arc73hk), Monday, 18 July 2005 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

I'm lovin' this album...and the bonus disc too! "Clean Sweep" is just awesome.

― van nostrum (Buck Van Smack), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 01:32 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

Just broke this back out today for the first time in probably two months. It's still great, just to let you know. Although I'm never going to be in love with 49 Percent.

― matt2 (matt2), Monday, 26 September 2005 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

i listened to it twice this weekend and love it more than ever. and i LOVE 49 percent.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 26 September 2005 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I don't know why I can't completely fall in love with it. I feel like I should and at moments I feel like I'm going to, but every time it comes back on I have to fight jumping to Sombre Detune.

― matt2 (matt2), Monday, 26 September 2005 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

yeah

― F.R.I.E.N.D. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 01:23 (nineteen years ago)

I've been overdosing on "49 Percent" somewhat ridiculously of late.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

It makes me think of Michael Moog.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

Yes! I adored "That Sound" too. Thank you Steve you have made my day.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

The Understanding!

I was an idiot not to see them live.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Sunday, 22 January 2006 01:35 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

people really hate that "r'n'b" song eh? :|

stupid people.

Still such a weird half-great album this... it's like in focusing on creating as many brilliant vocal pop/dance tunes as they got on here (no mean feat!) they managed to completely turn off the part of their brains which made memorable instrumental tracks. I hope they put another record out, seeing as this seems almost like a flop, or at least a very hard/missed sell to the fanbase that liked the first album.

― fandango (fandango), Sunday, 9 April 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

a flop?

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 9 April 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I don't know the chart positions or anything but it seemed to me like a lot of the ambient/chillout liking, one-dance-album-per-year type crowd that dug the first record were turned *right* off by the pop/house thrills here (more fool them, it's the best stuff on it). I'm repeating my last point I guess.

― fandango (fandango), Sunday, 9 April 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

every remix I've heard off this has been good. I should probably get it.

has anyone given the royksopp's night out live thing a listen?

― haitch (haitch), Sunday, 9 April 2006 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

It seems about 50/50 -- wacky Queens of the Stone Age cover, excellent performance on "What Else Is There?" and some decent versions of other songs. Erlend not being there kind of detracts from two of the songs.

― mike h. (mike h.), Monday, 10 April 2006 03:29 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

still goo

― admrl, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 21:28 (seventeen years ago)

I was thinking today how this album does absolutely nothing for me right now :/

― mh, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 21:32 (seventeen years ago)

I didn't actually start this thread. I have *NEVER* started an ILM thread. There are posts missing at the beginning.

― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 21:38 (seventeen years ago)

Also, it says the first post is from 2001.

Also yes, still GREAT.

― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 21:39 (seventeen years ago)

What are they up to?

― admrl, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 21:39 (seventeen years ago)

adam did you see the royksopp 'back to mine', that's the last thing they did.

― haitch, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 23:51 (seventeen years ago)

this

― haitch, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 23:52 (seventeen years ago)

^ better than any of their albums

― ☪, Thursday, 19 July 2007 08:55 (seventeen years ago)

i love that Heads track so much. has a re-edit of it been done yet?

― blueski, Thursday, 19 July 2007 10:33 (seventeen years ago)

It's really a cover, but surely has the characteristics of a re-edit if you fancy. I like it.

― willem, Thursday, 19 July 2007 11:57 (seventeen years ago)

radio slave did one.

― haitch, Thursday, 19 July 2007 12:23 (seventeen years ago)

My first encounter with this album was not positive (crappy store headphone preview lead me to believe it was just too sunny for my decidedly not disposition at the time) and completely dissuaded me from picking it up.

But, over time, the remixes made their way to various dancefloors. Reminding me that I had spent a lot of quality time with Melody A.M. and that if RRöyksopp managed to convince me to lock in a whole album on repeat, maybe a second chance was in order.

Now, aside from "49 Percent" (which is skipped without fail and never gets imported into the iPod), I've grown to love every track on this. Example: "Sombre Detune" - throw that on a proper pair of speakers and you might just find it's an extension of the electronic psychedelia they explored on "Royksopp's Night Out", only better.

― dblcheeksneek, Thursday, 19 July 2007 13:00 (seventeen years ago)

The first message is interesting. "Only This Moment" probably wasn't even written in 2001. :)

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 19 July 2007 23:09 (seventeen years ago)

thanks willem!

― blueski, Thursday, 19 July 2007 23:14 (seventeen years ago)

i deleted it

― o-ess, Saturday, 21 July 2007 01:54 (seventeen years ago)

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