RÖYKSOPP ANNOUNCE PROFOUND MYSTERIES II TO BE RELEASED ON AUGUST 19TH FIRST TWO TRACKS AVAILABLE NOW "SORRY (FEAT. JAMIE IRREPRESSIBLE)" |
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“‘Profound Mysteries II’ is a direct continuation of the first installment. Reoccurring themes such as love & loss, despair & reconciliation, is wrapped up in an esoteric nod to those artists and genres that shaped us in our formative years.” - Svein Berge & Torbjørn Brundtland |
Electronic pop trailblazers, Röyksopp, have announced the second part to their expansive Profound Mysteries project, Profound Mysteries II, will be available on August 19th. Yesterday Röyksopp delighted fans with the surprise release of new track “Sorry” featuring Jamie Irrepressible, and today, hot on its heels, comes “Unity” featuring Karen Harding. |
Speaking about the collaboration Harding said, “Truly honored to be working with Röyksopp, I'm a fan and have always loved the way they perform their music. 'Unity' is such a special record that builds with an intensity that I crave in music, this helped with the vocal performance in so many ways.” Berge and Brundtland describe Profound Mysteries as the biggest undertaking of Röyksopp’s career. It both encapsulates the unique sound they’ve spent decades honing, and expands on it. It’s a bold look to the future, and an homage to the artists, genres, and musical movements that first inspired them. It’s a project they’ve spent their whole lives making (the oldest ideas date back to the early days of Röyksopp, literally using MIDI data first composed by the band when they were teenagers in the 1990s), and it’s brand new. Back in those early days, pioneers Berge and Brundtland immersed themselves in the Tromsø techno scene, a pivotal era in Norway’s electronic music history, and later formed Röyksopp during another fertile creative period known as the Bergen Wave; many of the artists who emerged in both scenes became vital creative partners throughout Röyksopp’s career. Their debut album Melody A.M. (released in 2001) would become a breakout success from the scene and led to an influential career that has spanned five studio albums, dozens of international hit singles, and numerous Grammy, BRIT nominations, and Spellemannprisen awards. This is all without mentioning a raft of acclaimed remixes for artists including Depeche Mode, Beck, Lady Gaga, and Coldplay, and their production and songwriting work, or their timeless collaborations with the likes of Robyn, Lykke Li, and The Knife/Fever Ray’s Karin Dreijer Andersson. |
Profound Mysteries is characterized by its wealth of collaborations. As always, Berge and Brundtland wrote, performed, and engineered the majority of the record together in Norway, though their collaborations span the world. On Profound Mysteries Röyksopp recorded strings and woodwind in New York, Berlin, and Paris, while guest vocals come from both familiar artists in the Röyksopp universe (Susanne Sundfør) as well as new additions (Allison Goldfrapp, Beki Mari, Astrid S, Karen Harding, Pixx and Jamie Irrepressible). |
There is a unique expanded creative universe, with each track accompanied by an ‘artefact’ and ‘visualiser’ created by Australian contemporary artist Jonathan Zawada, as well as a short film made in collaboration with Scandinavian production agency Bacon. Watch the films for Unity and Sorry. All previous films to date are viewable here. |
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Profound Mysteries II 1. Demiclad Baboons 2. Let’s Get It Right (feat. Astrid S) 3. Unity (feat. Karen Harding) 4. Oh, Lover (feat. Susanne Sundför) 5. Sorry (feat. Jamie Irrepressible) 6. Control 7. It Was A Good Thing (feat. Pixx) 8. Remembering The Departed 9. Tell Him (feat. Susanne Sundför) 10. Some Resolve |
Profound Mysteries II will be available from 19th August 2022. Pre-Order HERE* *Formats - CD and cassette only, vinyl to be announced |
‘PROFOUND MYSTERIES - I’ - OUT NOW |
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Profound Mysteries I 1. (Nothing But) Ashes... 2. The Ladder 3. Impossible 4. This Time, This Place… 5. How The Flowers Grow 6. If You Want Me 7. There, Beyond The Trees 8. Breathe 9. The Mourning Sun 10. Press «R» |
“Profound Mysteries is another superior collection of sophisticated dance music, perfect for a snowcapped forest disco.” - BROOKLYN VEGAN “Röyksopp have birthed an engaging, expressive multimedia universe suspended in digital mystery, a sum of many components meticulously executed. ‘Profound Mysteries’ truly captures the imagination, and excitingly hints at the next leg of this perceptual voyage: Simply 'Press R' to continue…” 9/10 CLASH “Profound Mysteries is a multi dimensional adventure… {It} lives up to Röyksopp’s reputation as a duo that has perfected the art of dishing out electronic hugs… they stay on the right side of arty party and continue to attract veterans, as well as visually stimulated newbies, to the wavy ocean of Nordic electronica." 8/10 THE LINE OF BEST FIT "With the idea of the studio album being questioned and the place of pop music in our culture – as well as blurring the boundaries of pop music and pop art – being assessed, work like Profound Mysteries elevates the conversation. But most importantly, the music on Profound Mysteries doesn’t struggle or collapse under the weight of Röyksopp’s artistic ambitions: the music is some of their canniest and most absorbing.” 9/10 POPMATTERS “... luxurious textures.” 4/5 CLASSIC POP FOLLOW RÖYKSOPP |
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