The Pull You Already Know

Röyksopp buried The Drug near the end of their 2009 album Junior, which is either the right placement or the wrong one depending on where your head is when you get there. Robyn sings it, her voice carrying a different weight than in her solo work—tired in a way that knows itself, surrendered rather than defeated. The production breathes slowly, synthetically, without urgency. It’s about compulsion: the thing that’s bad for you that you keep reaching for anyway. Röyksopp have always had cold water running under warm surfaces. This one goes all the way down.