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"Senior" is Röyksopp's chill follow up to 2009's dance album, "Junior." The Norwegian electronica duo recorded the albums at the same time, but "Senior" is the mellow instrumental counterpart -- the ambient music playing in the freak out room when your legs give out from the space invader dance stomping across the floor.

This short film born from six of the tracks on "Senior" is far from chillaxed though, featuring heavily disturbed images of broken children and zombie-like men tormenting three girls decked out like 1984 in an urban hellscape. When I first saw it, I was trying to figure out what blown out Scandinavian town it was filmed in, long abandoned from some volcanic fallout. Then I decided the directors, Noel Paul and Stefan Moore (ThatGo) traveled to Chernobyl for the shoot, before they revealed that, "We shot it in Detroit because it is exists as a contemporary dystopia." If...

Norwegian dance act Röyksopp have heaped praise on their fellow Scandinavian artists. The duo teamed up with a number of singers, including Robyn and The Knife's Karin Dreijer-Andersson, for forthcoming album Junior, and have claimed that their "inclusive" relationship helped increase their creativity. "There are a lot of good things coming out of Scandinavia at the moment from Sweden, Norway and Denmark," band member Svein Berge told Gigwise. "We (more)...

Norwegian band Röyksopp have set a Spring release date for their new studio album. The duo, made up of Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland, will release third record Junior on March 23. The group's debut Melody A.M sold over a million copies when it was released in October 2001. Their second album The Understanding came out in June 2005. The band have written, performed, arranged, produced and mixed all tracks on the new album, which (more)...