Röyksopp Profound Mysteries are Profound and Mysterious

I’ve actually been buying CDs. Weird eh? I’ve been listening to them ever since I got an old CD based Hi-Fi system from a charity shop a while back. I just like the sound. And I happened across a folder full of CDs that I’d made for use in the car ages ago. I like the way that music doesn’t sound over-processed and that I can start things playing just by pressing one button, rather than having to put into words what I want to hear and then make the “intelligent” device understand me.

Anyhoo, I discovered that Röyksopp - one of my favourite bands from way back was in the middle of a creative streak and had released not one, but three new albums in the last few months. The series is called “Profound Mysteries”. You can have a play with them (and their videos) here Click on the big logo and pick your track. I had a listen and I decided that I literally wanted to own a piece of this. And, the way things are, I ended up with all three. They have all kinds of different versions, including vinyl.

There are quite a few instrumentals and lots of vocalists I’ve never heard of but who sound amazing. And the whole thing is wonderful. It’s interesting that CDs are still around the same price they were forty years ago. And while Apple now make a lot of their “lossless” versions of music on their platform, it is worth remembering that CDs were lossless from the get go. And they sound superb. You should take a listen.