Röyksopp announce ‘Profound Mysteries II’: “We want to get your senses going”

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Röyksopp have announced details of their new album ‘Profound Mysteries II’. Check out new singles ‘Unity’ and ‘Sorry’ below, along with our interview with Svein Berge from the duo.The second part of their current project and follow-up to this year’s ‘Profound Mysteries‘ will be released on August 19, and sees the Norwegian electronic pioneers exploring “reoccurring themes such as love and loss, despair and reconciliation” while also being “wrapped up in an esoteric nod to those artists and genres that shaped us in our formative years”.“We are focussing on what we call ‘the mystery’ – it’s rather pompous, I know,” Berge told NME. “We even added ‘profound’ to turn up the nobhead-hood of it all!

But anyway, the thing with ‘part two’ in particular is that with this one, we point to the inspirational genres and artists who helped to forge us when we were kids.“For the keen ear, you’ll notice the heavy references.

We’ve always had that in our music, but this time it’s more blatant. It’s meant as a tribute, not a rip-off. You’ll find things that could point to the likes of Kraftwerk and Depeche Mode, but also genres like Italo Disco and ‘90s UK rave.”Berge explained how “the over-arching thing with ‘Profound Mysteries’ is to “trigger your imagination – to get your senses going” as well as posing “existential questions”.

Many fans have noticed how the vivid lyricism and bittersweet sounds from ‘part one’ harked back to their seminal debut ‘Melody AM’, while also introducing new elements.“It’s kind of what we do and what we always have done,” he said. “We hail from the club scene.