Pitchfork

Norwegian downtempo duo Röyksopp haven't blessed us with a proper album since The Understanding almost four years ago, but that's about to change. On their website, Torbjørn Brundtland and Svein Berge announced that Junior, their third album, will be coming out on March 23. This announcement is both good news, as the duo are quick to announce: "Every once in a while we surface to share our music and shed some light in an otherwise bleak reality. And that time is soon upon us, Ladies & Gents."

This time around, they've recruited themselves an all-star team of icy Scandinavian pop-goddess collaborators: Robyn, Lykke Li, Anneli Drecker, the Knife's Karin Dreijer. Drecker and Dreijer have both laced Röyksopp tracks in the past, Dreijer on "What Else Is There" and Drecker on "Sparks"; Robyn and Lykke Li are both new to the group. And that list of names means this album has a pretty good chance of ruling. Here's the tracklist:

01 Happy Up Here
02 The Girl and the Robot
03 Vision One
04 This Must Be It
05 Röysopp Forever
06 Miss It So Much
07 Tricky Tricky
08 You Don't Have a Clue
09 Silver Cruiser
10 True to Life
11 It's What I Want

The first single, "Happy Up Here", is out March 9.

The duo are also offering a new non-album song, "Happy Birthday", for free download on their site, and you don't even have to supply an email address or anything to get it.