Melody A.M. by Royksopp

Melody A.M. was the debut album from Röyksopp, the Tromsø duo of childhood friends Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland, who had come up through the Bergen Wave and produced the record themselves for Wall of Sound. It's electronic music with the lights down and the windows open: trip hop's slow, heavy-lidded beats, but brighter and dreamier than the usual smoky gloom, with melodies that hang in the air like breath on a cold morning. "Eple" is the sparkling, skipping proof.

It's the album that set the pair up as serious players in electronica. It topped the album chart at home in Norway, reached number nine in the UK while leading both the dance and independent album charts there, and by 2005 it had sold 750,000 copies around the world, 454,271 of them in Britain alone.

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