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Röyksopp nearing The Inevitable End
By Aly Barchi | Published on Tuesday 30 September 2014
Pride-of-Norway Röyksopp, aka long-time synth-pop kin Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland, have confirmed an ‘Inevitable End’ to the LP-releasing era of their Röyksopp lives.
So in other words, Röyksopp’s forthcoming fifth LP, ‘The Inevitable End’ – which is arriving, with a heavy sense of finality, on 10 Nov – will be their final collaboration of a “traditional album format”-type ilk. It features Berge and Brundtland’s ‘Do It Again’ featuree Robyn, as well as additional singing by CMU Artist Of 2012 Susanne Sundfør, Jamie Irrepressible and Ryan James, alias Man Without Country.
Doing a bit to define the new record’s general ‘tone’ sort-of-thing, Berge says: “With ‘The Inevitable End’ we’ve moved into a darker subject matter, with emphasis on the lyrical content. This candid approach feels very both personal, sincere and conclusive”.
Saying his piece, Brundtland adds: “With this album it became clear we wanted to make an album in a classical sense even if it’s the last one we make”.
And explaining where they pair’s heads ‘are at’ at the moment with respect to LPs and all that (in case it wasn’t clear, which is sort of wasn’t and still isn’t), Berge says: “We feel like this is a goodbye to the traditional album format. In our consecutive run of albums, we have been able to say what we want to say and do what we want to do with the LP. We’re not going to stop making music, but the album format as such, this is the last thing from us”.
Finally, try on first-listed ‘Inevitable End’ track ‘Skull’ right now.