Elsewhere, fellow Tromso-ite Anneli Drecker sounds almost Wagnerian as she swoops and hollers her way operatically through the otherwise taciturn (and lovely) "You Don't Have A Clue", but the real star turn comes from The Knife's Karin Dreijer Andersson, who in delivering her comparatively androgynous overlay to "Tricky Tricky" elevates the host track into a predatory, mechanical dance-floor nightmare.
All of which leaves the boys themselves to contribute words to closer "It's What I Want" and opener "Happy Up Here", the latter being a spunky, Parliament sampling son of "Eple" which proves that they're probably still not taking themselves too seriously. It's also Junior's both most accessible and essential moment.
So inevitably without all the pieces of the jigsaw, the picture's incomplete. Whether - harnessed together into a double album - the components of Junior/Senior would've reached the aesthetic heights of Melody AM won't be apparent until later this year. And whilst it may have been commercially expedient to avoid having both halves as one, the danger is that the sum may not exceed the parts.
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