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Röyksopp
Melody A.M.
Wall of Sound/Astralwerks
Release Date: 10/15/2002
Look out, France! Two guys with unpronounceable names make Norway the center of Eurobeats
Reviewed by Jeff Salamon
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How sad can you get and still be happy? In Norway, apparently, pretty damn sad. On their debut album, childhood chums Torbjørn Brundtland and Svein Berge (good luck trying to pronounce those names, Gideon Yago) channel post-adolescent despair into 10 groove-centric tracks that will gladden anyone who misses Play-era Moby (“A Higher Place”) or likes the idea of Euro-electroids Daft Punk backing up a yodeler (“Poor Leno”). Only “In Space” and the album-closing “40 Years Back/Come” (Röyksopp’s attempt to imitate Air — and that’s what it’ll leave you gasping for) go nowhere. In addition to three videos, the bonus second disc offers a handful of dance floor–friendly remixes, which are more likely than the originals to swivel your tailbone. But they couldn’t possibly make you any happier.
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