Royksopp

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

something's coming out next week

"Press R. Jan 1 2022. Follow the official Röyksopp Instagram (@royksopp) in the next 48 hours for your first clue"

Profound Mysteries - still don't know what it is but:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsX1RIXMcdk

& click the R button here for snippets of new songs:
https://royksopp.lnk.to/press-rYo

we're possibly looking at three albums - see comments https://old.reddit.com/r/Royksopp/comments/rws04k/ladies_and_gentlemen_we_got_a_date_january_10th/

can't seem to find where exactly he found that in "the source code" myself

fuck this teaser bullshit, I'll find out it when it's released.

If they would just properly repress/collect their early singles and Melody AM album, I would be happy.

Just listened to the snippets on the website and it sounds pretty interesting, which kind of surprised me. I'm curious if this is going to be an 'ambient, standard, remix' approach or something different for the 3 releases.

New one's out there now. Hearing it's quite the return to form. Two new Susanne Sundfor tracks too. I see the Sundfor thread was bumped but there's more on the record than those tracks - new Alison Goldfrapp collab too.

Here's the whole "continuous visual experience"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCfkWUmz9YY

It's great.

https://profoundmysteries.royksopp.com/ -> click the R button and it turns to yellow, ALL NEW SNIPPETS. This IS going to be a 3 album thing! (red, yellow, green)

(or a "3 chapter experience" if they don't want to use the word "album" anymore)

100% in favor of any/all acts making the 45:33 LCDsoundsystem album like this

here we go - the yellow snippets, organised:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUvZy7DvPXs

+ 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)."