Some three years ago Eskimo Recordings unveiled their debut artist album release, Lindstrøm and Prins Thomas's eponymous debut LP which captured the hearts and minds of the global music community, received superlative reviews across the world, catapulted the pair into the limelight and subsequently helped to put the words cosmic and disco back into the dance music lexicon. Now after various solo artist projects, Oslo's finest return with the highly anticipated 'II' and a worthy successor to their ground-breaking first album.

It would be no small understatement to say that right now Hans-Peter Lindstrøm and fellow Norwegian, Thomas M. Hermansen (aka Prins Thomas) are two of the hottest leftfield dance artists around. Whilst Thomas's roots come from a more dance/DJ background, multi-instrumentalist Lindstrøm provides the backbone to the pairs beautiful and melodic approach that takes their music from the dancefloor and into a looser groove that could fit happily in any home listening environment.

The pair joined forces in 2003, after mutual admiration and inspiration of each others productions. Lindstrøm as muso-wizard and Prins Thomas as the nu-skool remix-champ but they also share the same passion for collecting records and run their own labels Feedelity (Lindstrøm), Full Pupp and Internasjonal (Prins Thomas) from their Scandanavian liars. 2008 saw the release of Lindstrøm's debut solo album 'Where You Go I Go Too' (Feedelity) which cemented his standing as a unique master craftsman ("a triumph of sound design, as impeccably crafted as a Starck chair" 4/5 The Guardian) / "a modern electronic masterpiece" 5/5 Album Of The Month, IDJ Magazine) whilst Prins Thomas has also been busy running both of his labels, DJing all over the world, remixing the likes of Simian Mobile Disco and LCD Soundsystem, releasing the 'space-disco' defining 'Cosmo Galactic Prism' ("a gem" 4/5 Mixmag, "cosmic disco don" 4/5 DJ) double mix CD and compiling his own label's 'Greatest Tits Vol.1' on Full Pupp.

Solo projects aside, they now join forces again for yet another venture into their own musical playground. While retaining a lot of the musical ideals and ideas of the first album it's distinctively more organic, psychedelic, live and loose, which makes 'II' such a welcome return of a release. Featuring elements of italo, krautrock and disco-influenced productions alongside the production spark genius that defined those halcyon releases of the post disco/punk era Lindstrøm and Prins Thomas provide us with yet more lush basslines, sublime melodies and rolling rhythms bursting with pure emotion. Throughout you can find the experimental energy of the continental space-disco of the eighties which the pair still adore: melodic, synth-heavy and cinematic, with arpeggiated basslines set to organic, flowing grooves.

Lindstrøm and Prins Thomas's sublime norse code continues to astound, invigorate and inspire as every twist and nuance is embellished with a warmth and glow few seem capable of capturing. The space-disco kings are back.