And so, after some delay, we hit the top 20. In it, there’s pop, and there’s stuff that sounds pop in my head but might not be. There are lots of excellent songs though, which I guess is the point of this thing, right? Clicky below. And click back a few entries for parts 1-3. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘royksopp’
Top 50 Singles 2009 (20-11)
Posted: 17th December 2009 by MV in ReleasesTags: crazy cousinz, fever ray, girls aloud, jamie t, kyla, little dragon, peaches, pictureplane, rex the dog, robyn, royksopp, the bird and the bee, the juan maclean
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Royksopp – This Must Be It
Posted: 12th November 2009 by MV in ReleasesTags: fever ray, royksopp, the knife
Sometimes a song exists on record, and it’s pretty pleasant, y’know. It’s Royksopp, kind of doing a less good version of the Girl and the Robot but with Karin Knife instead of Robyn, fair enough. Nothing special. Then it gets a video like this and suddenly it all makes sense. Not that the video actually [...]
Royksopp ft. Robyn – The Girl & The Robot
Posted: 22nd May 2009 by MV in ReleasesTags: robyn, royksopp
Hallelujah! An official video has finally emerged for this one. An undoubted highlight of Royksopp’s patchy third album Junior, this is a track plainly built around Robyn’s style, rather than Robyn guesting on a Royksopp-esque track, and all the better for it.
New La Roux, video-free legends, genre confusion, and bleeps
Posted: 6th February 2009 by MV in ReleasesTags: kyla, la roux, marina and the diamonds, pet shop boys, royksopp, saint etienne
Let’s kick off with a bit of audio-only action from two pop scene stalwarts who it’s still very much OK to love. First up, WHY on earth is there no video for what is surely Saint Etienne’s most pop single in years. I guess it’s the same reason their latest best of has been repeatedly [...]