Royksopp

I love Röyksopp and their latest album is ace. But I like them better when they are not sampling.

when do they not sample, geir

http://www.whosampled.com/sample/view/450/Royksopp-Eple_Bob%20James-You're%20as%20Right%20as%20Rain/

(ok that's the only other song I know by them, and it looks like they're normally less into bricolage. still, what they did with those two samples is exactly my kind of thing, these guys are going to know exactly what to do with Melodyne 2 if it ever comes out)

Is this all ILM has on Junior? I've never really listened to this band before (apart from hearing the singles off Melody AM) but I'm really enjoying this album. The Girl And The Robot, True To Life, You Don't Have A Clue - all totally killer. I don't see how the vocalists are a miss-step.

there's also Röyksopp Goes Pop: It's Junior

Ah ok cheers!

Any word on Senior? The last album was a pile of special guest vocalist shit. Hopefully Senior is truly darker and mostly instrumental.

Go Junior! Go Senior!

Coming in september.

The last album was a pile of special guest vocalist shit.

Every part of this statement is 100% wrong.

Hopefully Senior is truly darker and mostly instrumental.

You'll be delighted to know that it's instrumental, at least.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFL2cE7NvkU

Leaked - I heard it on the mp3 player at work today but I can't say I noticed much about it.

So Senior is a huge disappointment. Junior was one of my favourite albums of last year, all shiny production and great tunes but this one is so dull. There were a few pleasant moments but nothing memorable and none of these songs touch Roysopp Forever from the last album.

well i like The Drug and the video is sick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoMxO8TNowU

Yeah it's not horrible but it's 3 stars max.

I was wondering if this is a lost classic or has largely been ignored for a reason ... ?

what are you referring to?

it is a mystery.

Senior.

how can it be a lost classic if it was just released a few months ago? it was better than Junior but nowhere near as good as their debut.

Senior.

you jest

Oh, you know what I mean: great but ignored or ignored because it is rubbish.

It's a decent album. Better than Junior. The third best album by Royksopp.

but more importantly, why do you think it's a lost classic? make your case.

I haven't heard it - it was a question.

bld feel free to make yr case for it being better than Junior. i've kinda ignored this because tho it is by no means terrible it is kinda dull and neither as lush nor as busy as i was hoping they could make it.

Curious way to go about asking if you should check it out but ok. I think it's worth hearing. It's got some good tracks, a few tracks that are just ok and no real stinkers. Nothing incredible either.

My case for it being better than Junior = fewer vocals on Senior. Senior is more of a listening album, Junior is more of a 'let's make party tracks with guest vocalists'.

i was v keen on a good listening album from them but this wasn't quite it and i think they really are better at pop songs tbh

Finally getting around to hearing Senior (HMV, £3.00). Had forgotten that I'd posted on this thread.

Me over at Pitchfork on their sorta newest:

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18168-royksopp-late-night-tales/

despite not having had any interest in this lot before, i have been really enjoying senior a lot this week.

something to do with the need to have a calm groove in the heat ...

oooh .. budpest by blimp by thomas dolby is one of my all time fave tracks ...

tis the final crowd section - a genuine shivers up the spine moment

good choice.

Nice bit of writing Ned

really enjoying that album, have absolutely no time for the story at the end.

it seems so out of place and is joined on at the end.

Solid steel put a Ray Bradbury short story in the middle of a compilation in 2001 and this feels like an outdated extension of that.

Every instalment of Late Night Tales since the beginning has had a short story at the end.

http://www.stereogum.com/1708105/ro%CC%88yksopp-skulls/mp3s/

How the hell can you have the luxury of 1. saving a voice like Susanne Sundfør's until the second half of your track and then 2. not even selecting it for your album!?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOMksSfRb9w

Listened to Senior tonight for the first time in years and was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. I'd kind of forgotten about it.

eple was a tune

I have this memory of driving home in a blizzard listening to Melody AM it was getting toward late afternoon and the sun was fading, in Southern Minnesota where once the ditches are full of snow it just blows across the road so you can barely tell where the road ends and the ditch begins but Roksopp felt appropriate

<3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0KAlTlrneg

the first 10 of the 15 lost tape tracks have been released on physical media but fans would have already bought them (and the other 5) online + this has nothing exclusive, I don't know who they think is going to buy this?

Did they ever top Melody AM? I've tried two or three of their other records, a few good tunes but none came close as an album.

I have no issues with Junior as an album but otherwise - lots of great tracks everywhere, yes

They've never released a 'best of' compilation have they? Seems unusual

not yet, no

None of their albums are as good as Melody AM (esp the 2CD version) but a sixty minute playlist of the best songs of the other albums is.

yeah after Melody AM they were a top-flight singles band for me.

great live, too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwZdTmBG4-A

+ this comment under "If You Want Me" on youtube:

Susanne Sundfør
2 days ago
It’s always fun to work with the mushrooms, and I think this song and the rest is the best material we’ve ever created together 🍄🍄

Some of this stuff (eg the tracks with Beki Mari & Astrid S) seems pretty generic - not bad, I just wouldn't have identified it as Royksopp.

the mushrooms?

"Røyksopp is the Norwegian word for the class of mushrooms known as puffballs, but the band's name substitutes ö for the second letter (in place of ø)."