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ROYKSOPP "The Understanding" Reviews
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Release: 12 Jul 2005
Label: Astralwerks
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| Blogcritics |
Rating: 9.5 |
The Understanding is a very impressive effort that leaves you hesistant to leave this plush cosmic universe Royksopp has created.
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| Playlouder |
Rating: 9.0 |
Like many of the truly great albums, techno-tinted or otherwise, it truly blossoms on repeated listenings.
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| AV Club |
Rating: 8.0 |
The Norwegians' second album, The Understanding, drops a lot of the easy-listening pastiche of their debut, Melody A.M., in favor of an icier blend of straight-up techno and Europop.
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| Guardian |
Rating: 8.0 |
The Understanding is even more melodious, lush and seductive than their million-selling debut Melody AM, and likely to become even more ubiquitous.
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| The Beat Surrender |
Rating: 8.0 |
It's going to get better with every listen and if I can make it down to Bestival I think it could well be the soundtrack to the musical highlight of this year.
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| NME |
Rating: 8.0 |
And that's the Pink Floyd of melancholic stadium techno all the way. Result!
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| ShakingThrough |
Rating: 7.6 |
The biggest complaint here stems from the excessive emphasis on vocals, which too often fall into overlapping Pet Shop Boys tripe.
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| StylusMagazine |
Rating: 7.5 |
The Understanding to edge past Melody A.M. as the best album of their brief career.
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| Spin |
Rating: 7.5 |
Straddling the line between arena trance and the new minimalism, the album established a middle ground with the single "Eple," a kind of techno-Coldplay track that could soundtrack a Mitsubishi ad.
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| PasteMagazine |
Rating: 7.0 |
For a while there Röyksopp's 2001 debut Melody A.M. was almost as ubiquitous as Moby's Play
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| BBC Music |
Rating: 7.0 |
Having beautifully contrasted frost bitten beauty with weightless, sparkling grooves on their debut Melody AM, Royksopp return with The Understanding, a next-level follow up that doesn't sound like Royksopp at all.
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| MusicOMH.com |
Rating: 7.0 |
Royksopp have surpassed themselves again, and shown they are in this business for the long haul.
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| Popmatters |
Rating: 6.0 |
That's not to say it's always a success.
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| RollingStone |
Rating: 6.0 |
On Royksopp's second album, the Norwegian electropop duo delivers twelve songs of downbeat paranoia, by turns frantic and tired, jittery and soothing.
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| Dotmusic |
Rating: 5.0 |
'Chillout', it seems, was a moment in time and unhappily for Royksopp, one that's passed.
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| PrefixMag |
Rating: 5.0 |
Melody A.M. was snore-worthy at times, but at least it felt like an album that grounded itself on a unified mood, perfect for chilling out and occasionally -- but not necessarily -- busting a move.
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