Ready yourself for the new decade of style and Flashion Forward with UI as we gaze at the strange and colorful aesthetic scape fashion and music create when they collide. That’s right: let’s frolic about the closets of our fanciest, freshest interviewees and explore the zany manners in which artistes express themselves–and find out if their musical and sartorial styles sing in harmony or clash discordantly.
The difficult but fun to pronounce Röyksopp (try dropping an intelligent reference to Röyksopp after a few sips of giggle juice and you’ll see what I’m sayin’) hails from an equally difficult but fun to pronounce city in Norway–Tromsø.
Like most of the extremely wonderful and extremely naughty things in life, Röyksopp picked up their electronic music habit young and never looked back; they played with Aedena Cycle, Alania and Drum Island before reuniting and busting out their own outfit several years later, delivering “languid, elegant and impeccably cool music” that “gives a post-modern sheen to old-school heartache.”
Their often downbeat, serious themes belie a rarely approached level of exuberance and unfettered silliness at public performances. Besides, anyone who can’t appreciate the singular beauty and practicality of a red and white polka-dotted snuggle suit and the occasional need to simultaneously eat one dead fish while feeding another dead (and presumably sated) fish head, is probably not going to buy what Röyksopp is sellin’ anyway.
And really, the boys are all about the fans–them meeting musician’s needs and musicians meeting theirs. Speaking of which, if you want to get on Röyksopp’s good side, consider expressing your appreciation through nudity. They’ve found it’s an extremely effective mode of communication between performers and their audience. Crying jags work too. Check out their tip list below:
TOPICS: Flashion Forward, Kathleen Willcox