Album Review: Royksopp & Robyn - Do It Again

Although it's only a five-track EP, this Nordic super-pairing give us half-an-hour of weird electro pop perfection, with saccharine and subdued moments balanced out by dense periods of intensity where you can't tell which way is up. Do It Again offers up an astral journey that takes us from the soil to the stars, returning us at the end of it all spent but smiling. The release is introduced and concluded by two ten-minute pieces, with Monument led by a breathy Robyn, her voice twisted into a warped state by the Röyksopp pair, while Inside The Idle Hour Club acts as a warm down from the beats that have proceeded it, the chamber sounds giving the track a very baroque feel.

Before that though, it's party time. Sayit is a storming bit of call-and-response sass that sees Robyn stomping forth with attitude, riding a curling bassline that is layered to the nines by Röyksopp. The title track, meanwhile, is vintage Robyn, with the Norwegians taking a back seat, simply providing a platform for the Swedish vixen to bring the pop brilliance like only she can. You can practically imagine her explosive dance moves when the beat bursts and those high keys come in. This taster serves as an introduction to a new Röyksopp album tentatively scheduled for release later this year. All it's done, however, is made us ravenous for a main course of the Royk-Rob variety. Stay a little longer, Do It Again.