R?yksopp - The Understanding
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Artist: R?yksoppEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-07-12
Music Label: Astralwerks
Soundtracks:
- Triumphant
- Only This Moment
- 49 Percent
- Sombre Detune
- Follow My Ruin
- Beautiful Day Without You
- What Else Is There?
- Circuit Breaker
- Alpha Male
- Someone Like Me
- Dead To The World
- Tristesse Globale
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Free Music Review: Not as good as Melody AM
Hit: 3 Stars
I was so happy with "Melody AM" that I also bought "the Understanding." Too bad. Melody AM is so much better than the Understanding that the CDs sound like they were made by different groups altogether. This CD just did not have any life to it. Kind of blah.
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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. NOTE: The limited edition version of the record includes an all-new 5-song B-Side EP. -Matthew CookeSpecial edition of the second album by the Norwegian electro duo. Comes with a bonus CD which will feature rare tracks.
Bonus Disc Includes the Songs "go Away", "Clean SWEEP", "Boys", "Head" and "Looser Now".
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