- electronic, synth-pop
- 59 min
- 12 tracks
- Labels
The Understanding is the second studio album by Norwegian electronic music duo Röyksopp. It was released on 22 June 2005 by Wall of Sound. The Understanding debuted at number 13 on the UK Albums Chart, with 22,466 copies sold in its first week. The album was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) on 1 December 2006, and had sold 103,500 copies in the United Kingdom by March 2009.
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Character
Character-led, grave, spare and classical in form.
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
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Metacritic 68/100
- AllMusic3/5 ★
- Entertainment WeeklyB
- The Guardian4/5 ★
- The Irish Times4/5 ★
- NME8/10
- Pitchfork8.1/10
- Q4/5 ★
- Rolling Stone3/5 ★
- SpinB+
- The Village VoiceC+
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Tracks
- 1Triumphant4:21
- 2Only This Moment3:56
- 349 Percent5:12
- 4Sombre Detune4:52
- 5Follow My Ruin3:52
- 6Beautiful Day Without You5:29
- 7What Else Is There?5:17
- 8Circuit Breaker5:25
- 9Alpha Male8:11
- 10Someone Like Me5:23
- 11Dead to the World5:21
- 12Tristesse Globale1:23
12 tracks, 59 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Röyksopp
- Label
- Labels
- Released
- 2005
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Copy Control CD
- Country
- XE
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