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The Understanding | 
| Artist: Roeyksopp
Label: Astralwerks
Category: Music
List Price: $17.98
Buy New: $14.99
You Save: $2.99 (17%)
Rating:  55 reviews
Sales Rank: 21765
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 11352
UPC: 094631135224
EAN: 0094631135224
ASIN: B0009RQRP6
Release Date: July 12, 2005
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| Tracks:
| • | Triumphant | | • | Only This Moment | | • | 49 Percent | | • | Sombre Detune | | • | Follow My Ruin | | • | Beautiful Day Without You | | • | What Else Is There? | | • | Circuit Breaker | | • | Alpha Male | | • | Someone Like Me | | • | Dead To The World | | • | Tristesse Globale |
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Amazon.com
In 2002, the Norwegian duo of Svein Berge and Torbjorn Brundtland found a sweet spot between wispy Moon Safari-style pop and Boards of Canada-like atmospherics on the widely-admired Melody A.M. The Understanding sounds relatively absent-minded, careening around the room like a panicky fly. Some of it works well; the bouncy "Only This Moment" resembles Fischerspooner at their silliest (and thus, most fun), while "49 Percent" gets a huge lift from a New Jack vocal courtesy of Chelonis R. Jones. But the record is too often thwarted by syrupy synth-pop ("Follow My Ruin") as well as the lack of shifty downtempo rhythms and avant-garde underpinnings that kept Melody so pleasantly grounded. They haven't lost their knack for subtle hooks and well-placed cross-rhythms, like the slippery keyboard squibble that glides its way into "What Else Is There?" But the sophomore curse is hard to overcome, and though there's plenty here to recommend, Berge and Brundtland aren't able to break the spell. NOTE: The limited edition version of the record includes an all-new 5-song B-Side EP. -Matthew Cooke
Album Description
Special edition of the second album by the Norwegian electro duo. Comes with a bonus CD which will feature rare tracks.
Album Details
Bonus Disc Includes the Songs "go Away", "Clean SWEEP", "Boys", "Head" and "Looser Now".
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 It's like robots at the disco July 27, 2008
Bryant Phillips (Seattle, WA United States)
Saturday Night Fever's John Travolta is suddenly transported through time into the future, where by a freak coincidence he fuses with Moby. Royksopp, named after the sound made when the two fused together, is like the Coors Light train roaring through town: chill, funky, and refreshing.
 Not as good as Melody AM July 1, 2008
Rob (Houston)
I was so happy with "Melody AM" that I also bought "the Understanding." Too bad. Melody AM is so much better than the Understanding that the CDs sound like they were made by different groups altogether. This CD just did not have any life to it. Kind of blah.
What Else is There? May 1, 2008
Liolania (Hippyville USA)
Melody AM was no doubt one of the best albums of 2002 period. It was an amazing peice of electronic music that went beyond the confines of the genre. It was moody, melodic, and haunting... So, with a masterpeice like Melody AM, where can you go?
Actually, if Roysopp had rested on their laurels and made a Melody AM pt. 2, it would have been better than this contrived peice of electronic dance music. There is absolutely no substance, it is all fluff. The beats all sound the same, and they sound like just about anything you would hear on a standard dance album. It is closer to synth pop than electronica or downbeat music... It is very disapointing.
Out of the 12 tracks, the only ones I really remember is the first track "Triumphant" and the seventh track "What Else is There?" The latter being the only truly memorable song on the disc, and largely in part to the haunting vocals provided by Knife's lead singer Karin Andersson. Her voice is similar to Bjork's styalistically, and adds a very somber and almost mystical tone to the song. This song is no doubt on par with Meldoy AM, but everything else here is so sub-par it makes you wonder if Royksopp can make it back up to the same quality that they once had.
God Bless ~Amy
batting a thousand so far... April 25, 2008
Firefly
I guess I must be batting a thousand right now. It seems that every CD I buy I can't put it down, and this one is no different. I heard "Melody A.M." and I thought it was okay. But after hearing "The Understanding" I realized that we (Royksopp & myself) did in fact have an understanding. They keep making music that I enjoy listening to and I'll keep buying it. Though there are a few songs that I don't jump up and down for (true of all music) this CD is very pleasant to listen to, at home, in the car, or from my LG Voyager phone. I love "Only This Moment", Sombre Detune" and "Follow My Ruin". But my two absolute favorites are "Beautiful Day Without You" and "Someone Like Me" whose lyrics remind me of why I'm still insanely in love with my wife. What are the odds?
Not Melody A.M., but understand it I did! June 9, 2007
far_out_musik (a peaceful state of mind)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'll keep this short, and give a track-by-track later:
The moment I first heard Melody A.M. all the way thru, I cried sweet tears of bliss. Now, album 2 is no Melody, but either way, it rocks my socks. One play of "Follow My Ruin" will wow you. It wowed my English class. ;)
So don't knock this album. You'll groove to it, and that's a given.
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