Apr 172009
The new Royksopp album, Junior, offers up a bittersweet confection of Scandinavian electropop that’s good enough to earn heavy repeat play on my iTunes queue. The album includes several instrumental and vocal arrangements that sound like they were composed in the solitary walk home from a great party. Established Nordic chanteuses including Robyn, Lykke Li, and Karin Dreijer-Anderrson from The Knife bring considerable talents to full bear here, but the standout track is “You Don’t Have a Clue” featuring the vocals of frequent Royksopp collaborator Anneli Drecker. It’s a gorgeous song that defines the groovy but chilly ambience that permeates the rest of Junior. This is one of my favorite albums of the year so far.
