![]() ![]() ![]() So it gets lush, especially with the boys getting heavy on the songwriting and the singing. Some of this album's best moments have a keyboard-aquarium ambition that rivals anything from the early-80s charts, and if you've ever noticed how much the Knife's Karin Dreijer sounds like Cyndi Lauper, you'll get actual "Time After Time" flashbacks from her fabulous guest spot on "What Else Is There?" (This, after all, sounds suspiciously like a break-up album, and one that finishes off with more than minutes of Eno-ambient.) Jaxx will go overboard with the bells and whistles and constant motion, until three minutes' listening leaves you kind of drained when The Understanding does the same thing, it's by way of luscious synth pads swelling gradually out to fill every millimeter of studio space. Except where the Jaxx go for jerky funk and sample kung-fu, Röyksopp enjoy long, silky builds suitable late-night highway cruising, anyplace dim and wide and beautiful. ![]()
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