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Nine Below Zero

Every time I’m tempted to over­com­pli­cate a project, I lis­ten to Sonny Boy Williamson and he restores my faith in sim­plic­ity. You’ll understand.

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Invaded

Tor­b­jørn Brundt­land, the other half, goes on to con­found the sim­plic­ity of Berge’s descrip­tion, “Mak­ing this new album was like min­ing in the moun­tains. When you think of a mine you think of one that is already many kilo­me­tres deep, and peo­ple work inside it. But some­times one has to start a new mine, so you start dig­ging the crust of the earth. And we had to find a good spot to start dig­ging. [Pre­fix]

While I’m not at all sure what that means, I can say “Happy Up Here”—the impres­sive CG video for the first sin­gle on Röyksopp’s third album, Junior—is directed by Reuben Suther­land, a design school dropout who has pre­vi­ously worked with The Doves, T-​​Mobile, and others.

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