Izdavač: Ostalo
Žanr: Elektronska muzika
Poreklo: Strani izvođač

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Studio album by Röyksopp
Released 13 September 2001
Genre
Downtempotrip hopchill-outhouseambienttechno
Length 45:58
Label Wall of Sound
Producer Röyksopp
Röyksopp chronology
Melody A.M.
(2001) The Understanding
(2005)

Melody A.M. is the debut studio album by Norwegian electronic music duo Röyksopp, released on 13 September 2001 by Wall of Sound. The album reached number one in the Norwegian Albums chart. In the UK, it reached number nine in the country`s Album chart, and topped both the Dance Albums and the Independent Albums charts. As of 2005, the album had sold 750,000 copies worldwide,[1] with 454,271 sold in the United Kingdom alone.[2]

Composition
Jon Setzen of the San Francisco Chronicle describes the album as `an across-the-board mix of bleepy synths, crunch beats and ambient, dreamy vocals, with even a bit disco mixed in at times`.[3] With the album, `Röyksopp balances the haunted atmospheres of Boards of Canada with the more traditional `songwriting` sensibility of downbeat specialists like Groove Armada or Koop`, according to John Bush of AllMusic.[4] Andy Gill of The Independent said that Melody A.M. exemplifies the band`s intention to combine `Satie-esque harmonies and melodies like those of Francis Lai with the best aspects of three decades of electronic dance music: that Seventies analogue warmth, those fat Eighties beats and that meticulous Nineties programming.`[5] Nick DeCicco of Daily Republic also compared the record to the works of Air, Massive Attack, Tricky, Portishead and Moby.[6] The album features vocals by Anneli Drecker and Erlend Øye.[7]

The first track `So Easy`, described as `eerie`,[8] samples the refrain from Bobby Vinton`s `Blue on Blue`, said to be `recorded by some long-forgotten vocal chorus` and has `a chunky bassline` underneath.[4] The second track `Eple`, has `a high-pitched sonic tickle that falls in and out of pitch`, and `is pushed through with acoustic guitar and sluggish drums`[9] The `slow R&B` track `Sparks`, said to be a `toned-down` Portishead`, has `Drecker`s vocals drift and hang over the lush bass lines and airy guitar riffs.`[3] The `gentle drum and bass` track `In Space` has `rippling harps over sighing, sampled strings`[10][11] `Poor Leno` is a house song where Øye sings `a lullaby hook over a rich, subtly mutating` groove.[10][12]

`A Higher Place` is a downtempo track with `phosphorescent synth chords and a stinging guitar loop`.[12][13] The next track `Royksopp`s Night Out` is described as `tense, cinematic funk`, where the band `allow themselves to break into a free-flowing and slightly less restrained darkness.`[8][12] `Remind Me` is a club track influenced by acid house and explores easy listening music with `playground keyboard refrains and 60s vocal melody`. It also has `squiggly bass lines, melancholic synth effects, and dreamy male vocals.`[14][15] The next track `She`s So`, a track with `mournful saxophone and arcing synths to recall the dated tones of Tangerine Dream`,[10] `places the swooning moogs and strings of Air` with an `otherworldliness` texture `reminiscent of Vangelis` soundtrack to Blade Runner.`[14] The album closes with `40 Years Back/Come`, a track with an "80s sense of artificial ethereality` and `spindly, etiolated synth lines around rasping, squelchy beats before closing with warm fretless bass.`[4][5]

Track listing
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. `So Easy`
RöyksoppBurt BacharachHal David
3:44
2. `Eple` (some versions contain a `hidden track` of talking in the pregap) Röyksopp 3:36
3. `Sparks`
RöyksoppAnneli Drecker
5:23
4. `In Space` Röyksopp 3:30
5. `Poor Leno`
RöyksoppErlend Øye
3:57
6. `A Higher Place` Röyksopp 4:31
7. `Röyksopp`s Night Out` Röyksopp 7:30
8. `Remind Me`
RöyksoppØye
3:39
9. `She`s So`
RöyksoppPeter Thomas
5:23
10. `40 Years Back\Come`
RöyksoppMichael Manring
4:45

Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Melody A.M.[25]

Röyksopp – arrangement, production
Anneli Drecker – vocals on `Sparks`
Erlend Øye – vocals on `Poor Leno` and `Remind Me`
Ole J. Mjøs – co-production on `A Higher Place`
Ole Vegard `05` Skauge – bass on `A Higher Place`
Rune Lindbæk – extra input on `A Higher Place` and `40 Years Back\Come`
Marte Rognerud – inner sleeve photography
Sølve Sundsbø – cover photography
Tom Hingston Studio – design