Profound Mysteries
album by Röyksopp
Profound Mysteries is the sixth studio album by Norwegian electronic music duo Röyksopp, and is the first of three albums in the Profound Mysteries series of albums. It was released with collections of short films (each by a different director) and animated visualizations (by artist Jonathan Zawada) created to accompany each track. The album was released on 29 April 2022.
Background and development
Röyksopp had stated in 2014 that their fifth studio album, The Inevitable End, would be their final release in the "traditional album format". In 2016 (with the release of the non-album single "Never Ever"), Torbjørn Brundtland from the band explained that this was because they "have many musical expressions that we want to do … but we don’t necessarily want to do an album of it," and Svein Berge, the other half of the duo, later added that because it dealt "with things ending and death" it "felt like a natural send off at that point," with them "finding new ways of releasing the music in the future."
In the years following, the band's output shifted towards remixes, collaborations, and rarities (including their Lost Tapes collection). At the end of December 2021, Röyksopp launched a new Instagram account, leading to speculation from publications such as NME that they were working on a new project. Although the account had no content posted to it at the time, its corresponding description included the message "Press R", alongside a link to an updated, interactive version of their official website, where pressing the 'R' key on their keyboards would allow users to hear new music. The account also included the instruction to check the account in the next 48 hours for "your first clue". This was followed by releases of short films for "(Nothing But) Ashes" on New Year's Day 2022 and "The Ladder" on 13 January 2022.
The band announced on 2 February 2022 that they would be releasing a new project, titled Profound Mysteries with a release date on 29 April 2022.
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