![]() ![]() ![]() By the time it hits the six-minute mark, the song devolves into a swirl of Mari’s voice, dreamy synth lines, and a shuffling drum beat, evoking the gauzy, after-hours feeling of watching the sun rise over the dancefloor after a late night out. The seven-minute highlight “This Time… This Place” takes a harder approach, opening with breakneck techno before paring back into a sturdy, clean beat for singer Beki Mari. On the brooding “Impossible,” Goldfrapp murmurs about rolling thunder and a world on fire over a gummy synth reminiscent of Daft Punk the song is a solid reminder that Goldfrapp remains a quietly powerful force who can control a dance song with little more than a breathy sigh. The singers’ lightweight voices give the project a welcome unifying thread, as though each is gently stepping in to bolster the duo’s barreling electronics. They have recruited an inspired roster of guest artists, availing themselves of Alison Goldfrapp’s hypnotic soprano and Susanne Sundfør’s folky croon. The back-and-forth doesn’t always work, but Röyksopp still land on some of their most energizing floor-fillers to date. The actual songs vary from sleepy piano interludes to moody, charging electro pop. All of the clips (which the band call “films”) are surreal and oblique however pivotal to the project they are meant to be, they’re hardly necessary viewing. ![]() The resulting Profound Mysteries contains both music and a multimedia project, including a cryptic website, images, and 10 videos made by the film production company Bacon that attempt to expand on the collection’s larger theme, which grapples with the unknowability of the universe. ![]()
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