Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Royksopp & Robyn - Do It Again

Five tracks but it feels substantial, maybe not least because the two book-ends are close to 10 minutes each. Opener "Monument" is electro-spacey, has Talk Talk-seque saxophones and is good; next track "Sayit" is too clubby for me and closer "Inside The Idle Hour Club" a bit too amorphous; in between are two neat dance-pop numbers in the Robyn vein, with the title track in particular worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as past genius moments like "With Every Heartbeat" and "Dancing on My Own" (though without quite the deep melancholy edge that really put both of those predecessors over the edge into greatness), and "Every Little Thing" coming across all Italo disco-ballady.