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Junior is an album from Norwegian duo Röyksopp, made available for listening on their website March 13, 2009[1] and generally released on March 23, 2009.[2][3] The album has been described as a mix between the styles of the two previous studio albums, Melody A.M. and The Understanding, and features Robyn, Lykke Li, Karin Dreijer Andersson and Anneli Drecker.[4]

Röyksopp premiered the first song from the album, "Happy Up Here", on January 9, 2009 on BBC Radio 1. The first single was "The Girl and the Robot", a song featuring Swedish singer Robyn.[5] "This Must Be It" is scheduled to be released on October 26, 2009.[6]

"It's What I Want" will be included as a part of the official FIFA 10 soundtrack. "Röyksopp Forever" was also used in the background of the Flashforward Channel 5 promos during September 2009 and used as backing music on The X Factor 2009 in live shows.

Reception

Initial critical response to Junior was positive. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received a score of 74, based on 21 reviews.[7] The album was ranked #30 in Pitchfork Media's Top 50 Albums of 2009.[8]

Track listing

  1. "Happy Up Here" – 2:44
  2. "The Girl and the Robot" – 4:28
  3. "Vision One" – 4:59
  4. "This Must Be It" – 4:41
  5. "Röyksopp Forever" – 4:59
  6. "Miss It So Much" – 5:01
  7. "Tricky Tricky" – 5:59
  8. "You Don't Have a Clue" – 4:33
  9. "Silver Cruiser" – 4:36
  10. "True to Life" – 5:50
  11. "It's What I Want" – 3:06

Bonus tracks

  • "Were You Ever Wanted" – 5:37 (Japanese bonus track)[9]
  • "Across the Graveyard" - 4:23 (iTunes bonus track)[10]

Samples

Personnel

Charts

Chart (2009) Peak
position[12]
Norwegian Albums Chart 1
Belgium Albums Chart (Flanders) 10
Denmark Albums Chart 17
Swiss Albums Chart 18
UK Albums Chart[13] 21
Sweden Albums Chart 25
ARIA Albums Chart[14] 28
German Albums Chart 35
Dutch Albums Chart 43
Italian Albums Chart 45
Irish Albums Chart 50
Austrian Albums Chart 65
France Albums Chart 70
U.S. Billboard 200[15] 126
U.S. Top Electronic Albums[16] 4
U.S. Top Heatseekers 2

References

  1. ^ http://royksopp.com/music/junior
  2. ^ "Röyksopp announce new album details". NME. January 5, 2009. Retrieved January 5, 2009.
  3. ^ "New album 'Junior' out March 2009". Retrieved January 5, 2009.
  4. ^ Jessica Suarez (January 5, 2009). "Röyksopp - Progress Report". Stereogum. Retrieved January 5, 2009.
  5. ^ http://www.popjustice.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3470&Itemid=279
  6. ^ http://royksopp.com/next-royksopp-single-announced/
  7. ^ "Röyksopp:Junior (2009): Reviews". Metacritic. CNET Networks, Inc. Retrieved 2009-04-02.
  8. ^ "The Top 50 Albums of 2009". Pitchfork. 17 December 2009. Retrieved 18 December 2009.
  9. ^ http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=TOCP-66869
  10. ^ http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=307111768&s=143457
  11. ^ Miller, Jr., Neil. "REVIEW: Royksopp - Junior". UR Chicago. Retrieved 2009-03-23.
  12. ^ http://acharts.us/album/42706
  13. ^ Top 40 Albums
  14. ^ [1]
  15. ^ Billboard.com
  16. ^ Billboard.com
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