Following the comeback Charm School by five years, Good Karma finds Roxette in a fairly subdued mood.
This isn't to say the duo avoids hooks, dynamics, or even faster beats.
All three surface on the record's title track and Roxette often return to a steady electronic pulse, sometimes honing it with enough precision to turn it into a neo-disco trifle ("This One"), sometimes polishing it so it's sleek and urban in a manner not dissimilar to Ellie Goulding ("Some Other Summer"); they also play around with jagged rhythms, hiccupping singing, and vocoders on "20 bpm," which proceeds at a tempo just slightly faster than its billing.
Despite the welcome quickening of the tempo, most of Good Karma plays like big, polished power ballads, possibly because these kinds of tunes do dominate the record.
Even if the scale didn't tip toward the slow ones, the album would still feel like it was soft because Roxette deliberately excise the fizziness that fueled their big hits all in a conscious attempt to play toward their middle age.
In that regard, Good Karma is a success -- it's a mature Roxette album that doesn't disavow their past -- but it's hard not to miss the bubblegum Euro style of Look Sharp!.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It Just HappensPer Gessle | Roxette | Play | 03:46 | 8 MB | 27 MB |
| 2 | Good KarmaAndreas Broberger, Per Gessle, Hannes Lindgren | Roxette | Play | 03:19 | 7 MB | 24 MB |
| 3 | This OnePer Gessle | Roxette | Play | 03:11 | 7 MB | 23 MB |
| 4 | You Make It Sound So SimpleAndreas Broberger, Per Gessle, Hannes Lindgren | Roxette | Play | 03:42 | 8 MB | 26 MB |
| 5 | From a DistancePer Gessle | Roxette | Play | 03:30 | 8 MB | 25 MB |
| 6 | Some Other SummerPer Gessle | Roxette | Play | 03:08 | 7 MB | 23 MB |
| 7 | You Can't Do This to Me AnymorePer Gessle, Mats M.P. Persson | Roxette | Play | 03:50 | 8 MB | 27 MB |
| 8 | 20 BpmAndreas Broberger, Per Gessle, Hannes Lindgren | Roxette | Play | 03:48 | 8 MB | 28 MB |
| 9 | April CloudsPer Gessle | Roxette | Play | 03:30 | 8 MB | 22 MB |
| 10 | Why Don'tcha | Roxette | Play | 02:45 | 6 MB | 20 MB |
| 11 | Why Don't You Bring Me Flowers | Roxette | Play | 03:32 | 8 MB | 22 MB |
| 38 mins | 87 MB | |||||
| 38 mins | 272 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andreas Broberger | Composer |
| 2 | Per Gessle | Composer, Lyricist, Producer |
| 3 | Hannes Lindgren | Composer |
| 4 | Christoffer Lundquist | Producer |
| 5 | Clarence Öfwerman | Producer |
| 6 | Mats M.P. Persson | Composer |
| 7 | Roxette | Primary Artist |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |