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Melody A.M.

February 06, 2023

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]

Melody A.M.
Studio album by
Röyksopp
Released13 September 2001 (2001-09-13)
Genre
Length45:58
LabelWall of Sound
ProducerRöyksopp
Röyksopp chronology
Melody A.M.
(2001) 		The Understanding
(2005)
Singles from Melody A.M.
  1. "So Easy"
    Released: 1999
  2. "Eple"
    Released: 23 July 2001
  3. "Poor Leno"
    Released: 3 December 2001
  4. "Remind Me"
    Released: 1 July 2002
  5. "Sparks"
    Released: 23 June 2003

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]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic81/100[16]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [4]
Blender     [17]
Entertainment WeeklyB[18]
The Guardian     [8]
Muzik5/5[19]
NME8/10[11]
Pitchfork7.8/10[12]
Q     [20]
Rolling Stone     [13]
San Francisco Chronicle     [3]

Melody A.M. was met with universal acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 81, based on 21 reviews.[16]

Andy Battaglia of The A.V. Club called the album "a highly imaginative entry into the saturated realm of downtempo chill-out music."[9] Writing for Launch, Ken Micallef wrote that "Röyksopp spins ambient trip hop into bedazzled and beautiful winter Muzak."[10] Ethan Brown remarked that the album "will at least remind some of its eccentric possibilities. Like Björk's Vespertine or bedroom auteurs like Luke Vibert, Melody A.M. wires us into a highly personal, almost cocoonlike sonic sensibility."[21] The album "settles into a stream of pastoral, boutique techno that’s both soothing and derivative", according to David Browne of Entertainment Weekly.[18]

Abebe Nitsuh of Pitchfork considered Melody A.M. to be "the most solid, confident, and generally pleasurable downtempo full-length you'll be hearing for a while. Whether that means it's a must-buy, more well-meaning nondescript bubbling, or end-of-the-world car-commercial music has to be left to you." However, he said that the worst moments of the album is when the duo "go generically downtempo and then miss the mark".[12] DeCicco found the album unoriginal, continuing that "there isn’t much here that wasn’t done better and more interestingly at the height of downtempo’s popularity than it was by Röyksopp’s contemporaries."[6]

On 21 November 2007, the album was included on The Guardian's series of the 1000 Albums to Hear Before You Die.[22] It is also listed in a similar selection, called 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, in a series of books by Quintessence Editions.[1] On 24 November 2009, Melody A.M. was named the best Norwegian album of the 2000s decade by the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang.[23]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."So Easy"
3:44
2."Eple" (some versions contain a "hidden track" of talking in the pregap)Röyksopp3:36
3."Sparks"
5:23
4."In Space"Röyksopp3:30
5."Poor Leno"
3:57
6."A Higher Place"Röyksopp4:31
7."Röyksopp's Night Out"Röyksopp7:30
8."Remind Me"
  • Röyksopp
  • Øye
3:39
9."She's So"
5:23
10."40 Years Back\Come"
4:45
European limited edition bonus disc
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Poor Leno" (Jakatta Radio Mix)
  • Röyksopp
  • Øye
3:51
2."Poor Leno" (Silicone Soul's Hypno House Dub)
  • Röyksopp
  • Øye
8:09
3."Remind Me" (Someone Else's Radio Remix)
  • Röyksopp
  • Øye
4:03
4."Eple" (video) 3:38
5."Poor Leno" (video) 3:57
6."Remind Me" (video) 4:05
US special edition bonus disc
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Remind Me" (Someone Else's Mix)
  • Röyksopp
  • Øye
3:36
2."Poor Leno" (Röyksopp's Istanbul Forever Take)
  • Röyksopp
  • Øye
5:35
3."Remind Me" (Ernest St. Laurent Moonfish Mix)
  • Röyksopp
  • Øye
6:56
4."Poor Leno" (Silicone Soul's Hypno House Dub)
  • Röyksopp
  • Øye
8:09
5."Poor Leno" (video) 3:57
6."Remind Me" (video) 4:05
7."Eple" (video) 3:38
Japanese special edition bonus disc[24]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Don't Go"Röyksopp7:19
2."Poor Leno" (Jakatta Radio Mix)
  • Röyksopp
  • Øye
3:35
3."Poor Leno" (Silicone Soul's Hypno House Dub)
  • Röyksopp
  • Øye
8:11
4."Remind Me" (Someone Else's Radio Remix)
  • Röyksopp
  • Øye
4:04
5."Eple" (Fatboy Slim Remix)Röyksopp5:48
6."Eple" (Shakedown Remix)Röyksopp6:43
7."Eple" (Black Strobe Remix)Röyksopp6:10
8."Sparks" (Roni Size Remix)
  • Röyksopp
  • Drecker
5:29
9."Sparks" (Murk Downtown Miami Mix)
  • Röyksopp
  • Drecker
8:22
10."Poor Leno" (video) 4:01
11."Remind Me" (video) 4:12
12."Eple" (video) 3:39

Sample credits[25]

  • "So Easy" contains a sample from "Blue on Blue" by Gals and Pals.
  • "A Higher Place" contains a sample from "Freedom" by the Tyrrel Corporation.
  • "She's So" contains a sample from "Love in Space" by Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra.
  • "40 Years Back\Come" contains a sample from "Red Right Returning" by Michael Manring.

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

Charts

Certifications and sales

Certifications and sales for Melody A.M.
Region Certification Certified units/sales
France — 40,000[42]
Italy — 10,000[42]
Netherlands (NVPI)[43] Platinum 80,000^
Norway (IFPI Norway)[44] Platinum 50,000*
Sweden — 17,000[42]
United Kingdom (BPI)[45] Platinum 454,271[2]

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Release history for Melody A.M.
Region Date Edition Label Ref(s)
Germany 13 September 2001 Standard Parlophone [46]
Italy 14 September 2001 EMI [47]
United Kingdom 8 October 2001 Wall of Sound [48]
France 9 October 2001 Labels [49]
Australia 4 March 2002 EMI [50]
Japan 5 June 2002 [51]
United Kingdom 12 August 2002 Reissue Wall of Sound [52]
United States 15 October 2002
  • Standard
  • special
 Astralwerks [53][54]
Japan 18 June 2003 Special EMI [24]

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Melody A M is the debut studio album by Norwegian electronic music duo Royksopp 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 Melody A M Studio album by RoyksoppReleased13 September 2001 2001 09 13 GenreDowntempo trip hop chill out house ambient technoLength45 58LabelWall of SoundProducerRoyksoppRoyksopp chronologyMelody A M 2001 The Understanding 2005 Singles from Melody A M So Easy Released 1999 Eple Released 23 July 2001 Poor Leno Released 3 December 2001 Remind Me Released 1 July 2002 Sparks Released 23 June 2003 Contents 1 Composition 2 Critical reception 3 Track listing 4 Personnel 5 Charts 5 1 Weekly charts 5 2 Year end charts 6 Certifications and sales 7 Release history 8 ReferencesComposition EditJon 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 Royksopp 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 Oye 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 amp 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 Oye 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 Critical reception EditProfessional ratingsAggregate scoresSourceRatingMetacritic81 100 16 Review scoresSourceRatingAllMusic 4 Blender 17 Entertainment WeeklyB 18 The Guardian 8 Muzik5 5 19 NME8 10 11 Pitchfork7 8 10 12 Q 20 Rolling Stone 13 San Francisco Chronicle 3 Melody A M was met with universal acclaim from music critics At Metacritic which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications the album received an average score of 81 based on 21 reviews 16 Andy Battaglia of The A V Club called the album a highly imaginative entry into the saturated realm of downtempo chill out music 9 Writing for Launch Ken Micallef wrote that Royksopp spins ambient trip hop into bedazzled and beautiful winter Muzak 10 Ethan Brown remarked that the album will at least remind some of its eccentric possibilities Like Bjork s Vespertine or bedroom auteurs like Luke Vibert Melody A M wires us into a highly personal almost cocoonlike sonic sensibility 21 The album settles into a stream of pastoral boutique techno that s both soothing and derivative according to David Browne of Entertainment Weekly 18 Abebe Nitsuh of Pitchfork considered Melody A M to be the most solid confident and generally pleasurable downtempo full length you ll be hearing for a while Whether that means it s a must buy more well meaning nondescript bubbling or end of the world car commercial music has to be left to you However he said that the worst moments of the album is when the duo go generically downtempo and then miss the mark 12 DeCicco found the album unoriginal continuing that there isn t much here that wasn t done better and more interestingly at the height of downtempo s popularity than it was by Royksopp s contemporaries 6 On 21 November 2007 the album was included on The Guardian s series of the 1000 Albums to Hear Before You Die 22 It is also listed in a similar selection called 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die in a series of books by Quintessence Editions 1 On 24 November 2009 Melody A M was named the best Norwegian album of the 2000s decade by the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang 23 Track listing EditNo TitleWriter s Length1 So Easy RoyksoppBurt BacharachHal David3 442 Eple some versions contain a hidden track of talking in the pregap Royksopp3 363 Sparks RoyksoppAnneli Drecker5 234 In Space Royksopp3 305 Poor Leno RoyksoppErlend Oye3 576 A Higher Place Royksopp4 317 Royksopp s Night Out Royksopp7 308 Remind Me RoyksoppOye3 399 She s So RoyksoppPeter Thomas5 2310 40 Years Back Come RoyksoppMichael Manring4 45 European limited edition bonus discNo TitleWriter s Length1 Poor Leno Jakatta Radio Mix RoyksoppOye3 512 Poor Leno Silicone Soul s Hypno House Dub RoyksoppOye8 093 Remind Me Someone Else s Radio Remix RoyksoppOye4 034 Eple video 3 385 Poor Leno video 3 576 Remind Me video 4 05 US special edition bonus discNo TitleWriter s Length1 Remind Me Someone Else s Mix RoyksoppOye3 362 Poor Leno Royksopp s Istanbul Forever Take RoyksoppOye5 353 Remind Me Ernest St Laurent Moonfish Mix RoyksoppOye6 564 Poor Leno Silicone Soul s Hypno House Dub RoyksoppOye8 095 Poor Leno video 3 576 Remind Me video 4 057 Eple video 3 38 Japanese special edition bonus disc 24 No TitleWriter s Length1 Don t Go Royksopp7 192 Poor Leno Jakatta Radio Mix RoyksoppOye3 353 Poor Leno Silicone Soul s Hypno House Dub RoyksoppOye8 114 Remind Me Someone Else s Radio Remix RoyksoppOye4 045 Eple Fatboy Slim Remix Royksopp5 486 Eple Shakedown Remix Royksopp6 437 Eple Black Strobe Remix Royksopp6 108 Sparks Roni Size Remix RoyksoppDrecker5 299 Sparks Murk Downtown Miami Mix RoyksoppDrecker8 2210 Poor Leno video 4 0111 Remind Me video 4 1212 Eple video 3 39 Sample credits 25 So Easy contains a sample from Blue on Blue by Gals and Pals A Higher Place contains a sample from Freedom by the Tyrrel Corporation She s So contains a sample from Love in Space by Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra 40 Years Back Come contains a sample from Red Right Returning by Michael Manring Personnel EditCredits adapted from the liner notes of Melody A M 25 Royksopp arrangement production Anneli Drecker vocals on Sparks Erlend Oye vocals on Poor Leno and Remind Me Ole J Mjos co production on A Higher Place Ole Vegard 05 Skauge bass on A Higher Place Rune Lindbaek extra input on A Higher Place and 40 Years Back Come Marte Rognerud inner sleeve photography Solve Sundsbo cover photography Tom Hingston Studio designCharts EditWeekly charts Edit Weekly chart performance for Melody A M Chart 2001 2003 PeakpositionAustralian Alternative Albums ARIA 26 21Belgian Alternative Albums Ultratop Flanders 27 26Dutch Albums Album Top 100 28 69European Albums Music amp Media 29 36French Albums SNEP 30 84Irish Albums IRMA 31 18Japanese Albums Oricon 32 211Norwegian Albums VG lista 33 1Scottish Albums OCC 34 10Swedish Albums Sverigetopplistan 35 50UK Albums OCC 36 9UK Dance Albums OCC 37 1UK Independent Albums OCC 38 1US Top Dance Electronic Albums Billboard 39 18 Year end charts Edit 2002 year end chart performance for Melody A M Chart 2002 PositionUK Albums OCC 40 912003 year end chart performance for Melody A M Chart 2003 PositionUK Albums OCC 41 74Certifications and sales EditCertifications and sales for Melody A M Region Certification Certified units salesFrance 40 000 42 Italy 10 000 42 Netherlands NVPI 43 Platinum 80 000 Norway IFPI Norway 44 Platinum 50 000 Sweden 17 000 42 United Kingdom BPI 45 Platinum 454 271 2 Sales figures based on certification alone Shipments figures based on certification alone Release history EditRelease history for Melody A M Region Date Edition Label Ref s Germany 13 September 2001 Standard Parlophone 46 Italy 14 September 2001 EMI 47 United Kingdom 8 October 2001 Wall of Sound 48 France 9 October 2001 Labels 49 Australia 4 March 2002 EMI 50 Japan 5 June 2002 51 United Kingdom 12 August 2002 Reissue Wall of Sound 52 United States 15 October 2002 Standardspecial Astralwerks 53 54 Japan 18 June 2003 Special EMI 24 References Edit a b Dimery Robert 2005 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die New York Quintessence Editions p 750 ISBN 0 7893 1371 5 a b Jones Alan 11 July 2005 London events swing sales on UK charts Music Week Archived from the original on 30 August 2013 Retrieved 12 February 2014 a b c Setzen Jon 19 April 2002 Electronic CD Reviews Howie B Mark Farina Fila Brazilia and more San Francisco Chronicle Archived from the original on 17 May 2017 Retrieved 18 April 2017 a b c d Bush John Melody A M Royksopp AllMusic Archived from the original on 22 May 2014 Retrieved 12 February 2014 a b Gill Andy 12 October 2001 Pop This Week s Album Releases Foreign Edition The Independent ProQuest 311937292 Retrieved 23 July 2022 a b DeCicco Nick 14 October 2013 Our Music Year No 287 Royksopp Melody A M Daily Republic Archived from the original on 20 July 2022 Retrieved 20 July 2022 Levenfeld Ari 7 January 2003 PopMatters review PopMatters Archived from the original on 7 January 2003 Retrieved 22 July 2022 a b c Lynskey Dorian 12 October 2001 Royksopp Melody AM Wall of Sound The Guardian Archived from the original on 20 March 2016 Retrieved 16 March 2016 a b Battaglia Andy 22 November 2002 Royksopp Melody A M The A V Club Archived from the original on 20 January 2018 Retrieved 19 January 2018 a b c d Micallef Ken 10 October 2002 Launch review Launch Yahoo Archived from the original on 18 November 2002 Retrieved 22 July 2022 a b 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