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Röyksopp, The Understanding
Audio CD
Disk ID: 432133
Disk length: 57m 38s (11 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 2005
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. Triumphant | 4:22 |
| 2. Only This Moment | 3:57 |
| 3. 49 Percent | 5:13 |
| 4. Boys | 4:46 |
| 5. Follow My Ruin | 3:58 |
| 6. Beautiful Day | 5:22 |
| 7. What Else Is There? | 5:09 |
| 8. Circuit Breaker | 5:46 |
| 9. Alpha Male | 8:13 |
| 10. Someone Like You | 5:25 |
| 11. Dead To The World | 5:20 |
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Review
In 2002, the Norwegian duo of Svein Berge and Torbjorn Brundtland found a sweet spot between wispy Moon Safari-style pop and Boards of Canada-like atmospherics on the widely-admired Melody A.M. The Understanding sounds relatively absent-minded, careening around the room like a panicky fly. Some of it works well; the bouncy "Only This Moment" resembles Fischerspooner at their silliest (and thus, most fun), while "49 Percent" gets a huge lift from a New Jack vocal courtesy of Chelonis R. Jones. But the record is too often thwarted by syrupy synth-pop ("Follow My Ruin") as well as the lack of shifty downtempo rhythms and avant-garde underpinnings that kept Melody so pleasantly grounded. They haven't lost their knack for subtle hooks and well-placed cross-rhythms, like the slippery keyboard squibble that glides its way into "What Else Is There?" But the sophomore curse is hard to overcome, and though there's plenty here to recommend, Berge and Brundtland aren't able to break the spell. -Matthew Cooke
Other Versions
Albums are mined from the various public resources and can be actually the same but different in the tracks length only. We are keeping all versions now.
Tracks: 12 (+1 tracks), Disk length: 58m 36s (+0m 58s)
Tracks: 12 (+1 tracks), Disk length: 58m 45s (+1m 7s)
Tracks: 12 (+1 tracks), Disk length: 58m 46s (+1m 8s)
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