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R÷yksopp
Released 2001

Poor Leno
03:57
44,707 plays

Eple (Original Edit)
03:36
37,433 plays

In Space
03:30
32,104 plays

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- 1
- So Easy
- 04:09
- 32,025 plays

- 2
- Eple (Original Edit)
- 03:36
- 37,433 plays

- 3
- Sparks
- 05:25
- 30,089 plays

- 4
- In Space
- 03:30
- 32,104 plays

- 5
- Poor Leno
- 03:57
- 44,707 plays

- 6
- A Higher Place
- 04:31
- 21,498 plays

- 7
- Röyksopp's Night Out
- 07:30
- 21,764 plays

- 8
- Remind Me (Radio Edit)
- 03:39
- 129,324 plays

- 9
- She's So
- 05:23
- 19,810 plays

- 10
- 40 Years Back Come
- 04:47
- 18,200 plays

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album review

Chilled-out or downbeat acts swept through the electronic scene during 2001 and 2002, prompting dozens of identikit compilations, all conjuring up images of exhausted clubbers returning home early in the morning and enjoying a cup of tea or a smoke after a hectic night out. And although downtempo electronica had always been largely album-based, most of these trackmasters didn't do much on the full-length front. The Norwegian duo R÷yksopp, however, displayed a careful hand with the boards on their 2001 debut Melody A.M.. R÷yksopp balances the haunted atmospheres of Boards of Canada with the more traditional "songwriting" sensibility of downbeat specialists like Groove Armada or Koop. The opener is proof enough, with a chunky bassline undergirding the spooky, ethereal refrain from Bobby Vinton's "Blue on Blue" recorded by some long-forgotten vocal chorus. There's much of beauty on Melody A.M., very textured and imaginatively produced to sound like few of their contemporaries; it's saying much to even admit that R÷yksopp is occasionally the equal of such otherworldly acts as Boards of Canada or Goldfrapp. They seem a bit too indebted to the gauzy synths of '70s soundtracks, but there are a few good exceptions, like the distinctly '80s sense of artificial ethereality to the closer, "40 Years Back/Come." Picking up the ball right about where Air dropped it after Moon Safari, R÷yksopp produced one of the most intriguing downbeat albums of the year. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide