Junior
by Röyksopp
Metascore
74

Generally favorable reviews - based on 21 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 21
  3. Negative: 0 out of 21
  1. Observer Music Monthly
    60
    Eight years later, no longer so wide-eyed, the Norwegian duo sound more pedestrian, though 'Royksopp Forever' proves they haven't lost their sense of fun.
  2. Slant Magazine
    60
    While irrepressibly buoyant, this instills a lacking, spectator quality to the album, which for the casual listener often plays like the soundtrack to a movie you haven't seen.
  3. New Musical Express (NME)
    60
    It’s a shame, then, that instead of a sequence of whip-smart sonatas ruminating on the Scandinavian psyche, all that dribbles out is a pedestrian stream of the same old bubble-bath beats.
  5. Hot Press
    60
    Upbeat comeback from the kings of coffee-table electro.
  6. Mojo
    60
    Beyond the singles-"Melody A.M." lapsed into a latterday jazz-funk. This album sometimes tends the same way, but interest is reignited by Royksopp Forever--ELO with dancebeats--and the tracks where Lykke Li and The Knife's Karin Dreijer-Andersson approach Robyn's unhinged lager-umlaut Europop berserkersim. [May 2009, p.104]
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  7. Q Magazine
    60
    All told, a successful modernisation of an old formula. [May 2009, p.118]
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User Score
8.7

Universal acclaim- based on 59 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 57 out of 59
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 59
  3. Negative: 1 out of 59
  1. FredricH
    Mar 29, 2009
    10
    Listen to this one a few times and you will find that this album is pure genius. Nothing else in the genre even comes close.
  2. StonedFinn
    Jul 19, 2020
    10
    Im a Röyksopp fan and don't relaly know which album is my favorite one.
    But currently, this one would be my choice, for me it seems like every    Im a Röyksopp fan and don't relaly know which album is my favorite one.
    But currently, this one would be my choice, for me it seems like every second is perfect.
    I've got some songs i'd lile to say what i think about it.

    ,,Happy up here'' delivers most fun and has some parallels with ,,eple'' and still delivers some more serious moments i really enjoy.
    ,,The girl and the robot'' is the best song on the album and i have no doubt. Robyn fits the sound of Röyksopp perfectly and the song is wonderfully produced and just satifying.
    ,,Röyksopp forever'' is maybe the most beautiful Röyksopp songs including the rest of their albums. The strings are sounding so good especially when the song starts to roll and the middle part sound as if it was a classic orchestral piece.
    ,,miss it so much'' is a very sad and happy song at the same time with lycke li who delivers some childish frequencies into the album and i simply love it.

    I am so happy that there are still musicans who can create Pop whithout creating main stream but also instrumental masterpieces. Even though Röyksopp stopped bringing out music like they did when this album was released they didn't stop and i hope they will continue.    … Full Review »
  3. DanH
    Apr 27, 2009
    9
    There best work by far
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