Last week, Röyksopp told us that they had a new album on the way. They gave us a tracklist and said that it would have collabos with Robyn and Lykke Li and Karin Dreijer Andersson of the Knife/Fever Ray.But they did not tell us about asteroids and eyeball flowers and (I'm guessing) puddles of liquid-metal Terminator. Drowned in Sound ju...

We just offered you a jam-packed Röyksopp Progress Report and before that the Norwegian duo ushered in their 10th birthday with an appropriately titled "Happy Birthday" song. Here the Norwegian duo give us another song with happy in the title, "Happy Up Here." It's the first single from the forthcoming album Junior. As mentioned, the collection...

Wherever Röyksopp are floating right now, it probably isn't Monday. "Happy Up Here", the first single from Norwegian duo's upcoming Junior, is a lightly percolating walk through the clouds, its rubbery synthesizers and wispy vocals suggesting a sunny-day equivalent to Air's Moon Safari (the French duo are a frequent point of comparison ...

NAME: RöyksoppPROGRESS REPORT: Wrapping up their third studio LP, Junior, recorded "all over the world."As reported here a couple weeks back, Norwegian duo Röyksopp just celebrated 10 years together. And like good friends (or an old married couple) do when they hit an anniversary, members Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland exchanged gifts. "...