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. "...

Norwegian downtempo duo Röyksopp haven't blessed us with a proper album since The Understanding almost four years ago, but that's about to change. On their website, Torbjørn Brundtland and Svein Berge announced that Junior, their third album, will be coming out on March 23. This announcement is both good news, as the duo are ...