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May 23, 2014Quite frankly, it’s a towering edifice of electronic brilliance.
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May 27, 2014Do It Again is foremost a marvel of mood and pacing. The trio doles out their riches with utmost care.
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May 23, 2014Röyksopp and Robyn have not only traversed new territory, they've made it their own.
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May 22, 2014Ultimately, they bolster each other on Do It Again. For the two artists, it’s not groundbreaking--it is a nice dollop of sideways expansion, revealing new areas that neither can quite achieve separately.
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May 28, 2014Overall, Do It Again feels like an exploration for all involved, and even manages to address gender politics in discreet but intriguing ways.
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May 27, 2014Like much of this mini album, “Monument” is not thumping music for the club; it’s the soundtrack for when you get home.
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May 27, 2014Do It Again is a much happier reunion of collaborators with perfectly matched strengths.
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May 27, 2014“Inside the Idle Hour Club” is the comedown: woozy, wavy, lush, long. Not exactly cohesive then, but hey--it’s a trip.
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May 27, 2014Röyksopp are on top form here, and when Robyn returns to her exuberant self on the title track, expressing mixed feelings about having insatiable appetites, the effect is electrifying.
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May 22, 2014It’s the middle songs that are most immediately enjoyable.
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May 28, 2014If Do It Again is the physical artifact of Robyn and Röyksopp's union, it's extravagant and left of center, but it's above all generous.
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Jul 3, 2014For a record that trades heavily in production experiments foreign to both parties, Royksopp and Robyn by and large succeed at creating what they set out to--a monument.
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May 30, 2014Joyously addictive mutual self-destruction is what Do It Again is all about.
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May 27, 2014Like ‘The Girl And The Robot’ from Röyksopp’s 2009 ‘Junior’ album, and it begins with a stunner--‘Monument’, a winding and mystical 10-minute epic containing startlingly self-confident lyrics.
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May 22, 2014Do It Again is eccentric and ends too quickly, but those considerations pale next to the fact that within less than half an hour, Robyn and Röyksopp go from eyeing each other with genuine suspicion to sounding as if they’ve never been apart.
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May 22, 2014Do It Again isn’t as downright amazing as it could have been, but there are far more pros than cons.
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Jun 20, 2014The intention is to go for the cheese on Do It Again, but the impact is so much stronger when restraint is exercised.
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Jun 11, 2014For every moment of eye-rolling overindulgence, there is an equally stunning instance of ingenuity, but the album is so stylistically all over the place, it rarely solidifies as a cohesive statement.
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May 23, 2014Even without the ecstatic melodrama of Robyn's best work or the momentum of Röyksopp albums like 2009's Junior, this is a worthwhile peek into three great electro-pop minds.
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Jul 3, 2014There’s nothing inherently bad, but the whole venture feels akin to buying a Lamborghini and then driving it in a way that will maximise fuel efficiency.
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May 29, 2014We know what these artists can do separately. We've even had a glimpse of what they can do together, and when held up to that (and I'm not going to pretend it doesn't hurt me to say this) Do It Again just doesn't stand up.
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May 27, 2014Röyksopp and Robyn share so much sonic DNA that their team-up is almost self-defeating, blurring the distinction between the two to the point where their respective quirks are essentially scratched in favor of a cohesive but far too clinical production.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 52 out of 61
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Mixed: 3 out of 61
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Negative: 6 out of 61
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