If Billy Mackenzie were around today, he’d be ruing the fact that the new Röyksopp LP, Junior, is not very good. How can we work when Röyksopp have produced a third studio LP that just does not chill the mustard? If Billy Mackenzie were around today, he’d be 52, the day after Paul Morley, the journalist who championed him, was 52. We need new musik to work to. Nobody knew this and knows this more than Billy Mackenzie and Paul Morley. We cannot write without rhythm. We cannot think without the resampled biscuit tin drum beat that is Röyksopp’s finest contribution to our overstretched workaday imaginations. On the ninth anniversary of Ian Dury’s passing, these very important Norwegians are just not hitting us with their polychromatic, ulcragyceptamol-flavoured rhythm sticks. Where is the storm, the wonder, flashlights, nightmares, sudden explosions? What else is there? Hmmm…maybe I just better give Junior a second spin.
Mark Griffiths www.idealconsulting.co.uk
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