Everyone I know loves this song. Most of us discovered it as the music behind the Geico commercial with the cave man on the moving walkway in the airport. The song is wistful, atmospheric, catchy. A breath of fresh air compared to most contemporary pop in America. Royksopp (sorry, I don’t do umlauts) is two guys from Norway and has been around since 1998. They have two albums and a bunch of singles out, and thanks to the internet, many folks in the U.S. know more about them than this one song.
Having listened to a good portion of their material, I would say that within the electronic form, they are quintessentially modern and European, squarely in the Kraftwerk lineage. The video for Remind Me (below) is one of the most amazing things I’ve seen in a long time. It encapsulates their ultramodern, Bauhaus- and De Stijl derived aesthetics. It’s beautiful – and yet the wistfulness, even sadness, of the song questions everything that the modern, urban, metropolitan, cosmopolitan world has become. And who we are living in it.
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Everyone I know also loves that song!
Yeah, this post encourage me to go download it from itunes. There is a cool live version.
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