Royksopp - Royksopp's Night Out (2006)

An account of one night in Oslo at the climax of their World Tour, the Live EP sees the Norwegian duo tackle seven songs from their first two albums, plus an ambitious electro version of Queens of the Stone Age’s ‘Go With The Flow’. A head-pounding aural assault, Messieurs Brundtland and Berge all but abandon their soft beginnings in favour of tranced-up, pulsating dancefloor-fillers, adapting Melody A.M’s songs to fit this newer regime as they go. ‘Poor Leno’ is stripped of its one repeated vocal line to become a five minute, bass-heavy instrumental, whilst the Portishead moments of ‘Sparks’ are condensed into the first minute before giving way to thumping, industrial electro-funk. Here, guest vocalist Anneli Drecker excels in her part as satin-voiced songstress, standing-in elsewhere for The Knife’s Karin Dreijer, impersonating her child-like Scandinavian tones with precision.

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