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Terje produced it himself between 2011 and 2014; the CD runs 59:10 and the 45 rpm vinyl 52:26 with edited versions. Bryan Ferry sings on "Johnny and Mary", a cover of Robert Palmer, and Bendik Kaltenborn made the cover art. He told SPIN he had an idea of how grand, how fantastic a first album should be and wanted it to be at least as good as the first Royksopp album. About a third of the tracks, including "Strandbar", had been released before, and he drew on 1960s and 70s library music. It reached two in Norway, 23 in the UK and 120 on the Billboard 200. Metacritic scores it 79; Pitchfork gave it 8.7 and Best New Music, Resident Advisor 4.5 of 5 (Derek Miller called it a saucy trip through all of the influences that Terje has nodded to over his career), and the Guardian 3 stars.