Junior (Röyksopp album)

Junior
Studio album by Röyksopp
Released 18 March 2009 (2009-03-18)
Genre Electropop, synthpop, downtempo
Length 50:55
Label Wall of Sound
Producer Röyksopp
Röyksopp chronology
Back to Mine: Röyksopp
(2007)		 Junior
(2009)		 Senior
(2010)
Singles from Junior
  1. "Happy Up Here"
    Released: 16 March 2009
  2. "The Girl and the Robot"
    Released: 15 June 2009
  3. "This Must Be It"
    Released: 2 November 2009

Junior is the third studio album by Norwegian electronic duo Röyksopp. It was made available for listening on their website on 13 March 2009,[1] before being officially released on 23 March 2009.[2] The album has been described as a mix between the styles of the two previous studio albums, Melody A.M. and The Understanding, and features vocals from female singers Robyn, Lykke Li, Karin Dreijer Andersson and Anneli Drecker.[3]

Röyksopp premiered the first track from the album, "Happy Up Here", on 9 January 2009 on BBC Radio 1. The second single was "The Girl and the Robot", a song featuring Swedish singer Robyn.[4] "This Must Be It", featuring Dreijer Andersson, was released as the album's third single on 26 October 2009.[5]

"It's What I Want" was included as a part of the official soundtrack to the Electronic Arts video game FIFA 10. "Röyksopp Forever" was also used in the background of the Flashforward Channel 5 promos during September 2009 and used as backing music on The X Factor 2009 in live shows. An instrumental version of "Vision One" was licensed for use in the video game LittleBigPlanet 2.[6] "This Must Be It" was featured in the soundtrack for the 2011 comedy film Hall Pass.

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic (74/100)[7]
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [8]
BBC Music (very positive)[9]
The Guardian [10]
The Observer [11]
Pitchfork Media (7.9/10)[12]
PopMatters (7/10)[13]
Slant Magazine [14]
The Times [15]
URB [16]
UR Chicago (4/5)[17]

Initial critical response to Junior was positive. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 74, based on 21 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".[7] The album was ranked number thirty on Pitchfork Media's Top 50 Albums of 2009.[18]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland; additional writers indicated. 

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Happy Up Here"   George Clinton, Garry Shider, Bernard Worrell 2:44
2. "The Girl and the Robot"   Robyn 4:28
3. "Vision One"   Anneli Drecker, Yusuke Chiba, Shinichi Osawa 4:59
4. "This Must Be It"   Karin Dreijer Andersson 4:41
5. "Röyksopp Forever"   David Foster, Ted Lewis 4:59
6. "Miss It So Much"   Lykke Li 5:01
7. "Tricky Tricky"   Dreijer Andersson 5:58
8. "You Don't Have a Clue"   Drecker 4:31
9. "Silver Cruiser"     4:36
10. "True to Life"   Drecker 5:50
11. "It's What I Want"     3:06
Sample credits

Personnel

Charts

Chart (2009) Peak
position
Australian Albums Chart[21] 28
Austrian Albums Chart[22] 65
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)[23] 10
Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)[24] 43
Danish Albums Chart[25] 17
Dutch Albums Chart[26] 43
European Top 100 Albums[27] 18
French Albums Chart[28] 70
German Albums Chart[29] 35
Irish Albums Chart[30] 52
Italian Albums Chart[31] 45
Norwegian Albums Chart[32] 1
Swedish Albums Chart[33] 25
Swiss Albums Chart[34] 18
UK Albums Chart[35] 21
US Billboard 200[36] 126
US Dance/Electronic Albums[36] 4
US Heatseekers Albums[36] 2

Release history

Country Date Label
Japan[20] 18 March 2009 EMI
Australia[37] 20 March 2009
Germany[38]
Italy[39]
France[40] 23 March 2009
Norway[41]
United Kingdom[42] Wall of Sound
United States[43] 24 March 2009 Astralwerks

Notes

  1. ^ iTunes edition.
  2. ^ Japanese edition.

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Preceded by
Edendale by BigBang		 Norwegian Albums Chart number-one album
31 March 2009		 Succeeded by
Edendale by BigBang
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