"What Else Is There?" | ||||||||
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Single by Röyksopp feat Karin Dreijer Andersson | ||||||||
from the album The Understanding | ||||||||
Released | 21 November 2005 | |||||||
Format | CD/vinyl | |||||||
Recorded | 2004 | |||||||
Genre | Electronica, trip hop | |||||||
Length | 5:17 | |||||||
Label | Astralwerks 11352 | |||||||
Writer(s) | Svein Berge, Torbjørn Brundtland, Karin Dreijer, Olof Dreijer, Roger Greenaway, Robert Huxley, Anthony Instone, Danny Shoshan | |||||||
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"What Else Is There?" is the third single from the Norwegian duo Röyksopp's second album The Understanding. It features the vocals of Karin Dreijer Andersson from the electronica duo The Knife. The album was released in the UK with the help of Astralwerks.
The single was used in an O2 television advertisement in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia during 2008. It was also used in the 2006 film Cashback and the 2007 film, Meet Bill. Trentemøller's remix of "What Else is There" was featured in an episode of the HBO show Entourage.
The song was listed as the 375th best song of the 2000s by Pitchfork Media.
The single was officially released on 5 December 2005 in the UK. The single had a limited release on 21 November 2005 to promote the upcoming album. On the UK Singles Chart, it placed at #32 and reached #1 on the British Dance Chart.
The music video was directed by Martin de Thurah. The video features Norwegian model Marianne Schröder, she is shown lip-syncing Dreijer's voice. Schröder is depicted as a floating woman traveling across stormy landscapes and within empty houses. Dreijer makes a cameo appearance as a woman wearing an Elizabethan ruff while dining alone at a festive table.
The song is also featured in the movie Meet Bill as characters played by Jessica Alba and Aaron Eckhart smoke marijuana while listening to it. It is also part of the end credits music of the film Cashback.