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Track Listings
| 1. Don't Fucking Tell Me What To Do |
| 2. Fembot |
| 3. Dancing On My Own |
| 4. Cry When You Get Older |
| 5. Dancehall Queen |
| 6. None Of Dem - Robyn, Röyksopp |
| 7. Hang With Me |
| 8. Jag Vet En Dejlig Rosa |
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It's logical then that she's been amassing stockpiles of material, but three whole albums? You'd have to worry about diminishing returns. Instead, Body Talk Part 1 (Parts 2 and 3 to follow as summer turns to autumn and autumn to winter) triggers the sense Robyn's holding something back.
There's no doubt she's made some good use of her extended holiday–early trio Fembot, the single Dancing on My Own and Cry When You Get Older are scorchingly catchy, and laced with Robyn's familiar cordial of sparkling hook mixed with unutterable poignancy. The thing is, it's alarming when the first instalment of a trilogy houses so much filler.
Dancehall Queen is superfluous, fairy-light cod reggae–forgotten UB40 protégé Bitty McLean is an unlikely role model for a toughed-up pop survivor like Robyn–and the Röyksopp collaboration None of Dem is a barely more convincing dub excursion. This one's particularly disappointing in the wake of their last team-up, 2009's fantastic The Girl and the Robot. Bumptious intro track Don't F****** Tell Me What to Do implies the return of 2005's "killingest pop star on the planet", but conviction tails off.
After half an hour, Part 1 peters out with folk song Jag Vet En Dejlig Rosa, which is pretty enough but really a soft lullaby to put us into hibernation for Part 2. Let's hope that one's more about Fembot's Daft Punk punch and Dancing on My Own's wounded chimes than Dancehall Queen's ersatz skank. Robyn's more real than that. --Matthew Horton
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Body Talk (Part 1) indicates that we haven't heard all the best of her yet and we have some truely amazing synthy dance pop numbers and some soothing balladry acoustics towards it's conclusion. Robyn has made a wise decision of releasing a trilogy of albums this year and i really hope the world opens up to her more as this 8 track disc is some of the finest pop tunes contained on a disc. we already have Gorillaz Plastic Beach and Christina Aguilera's Bionic providing the finest in the music scene this year with their sensational albums (and i mean beyond amazing!)Body Talk with this first disc alone ranks up there with those as the best in music this year (alongside Kelis' fantastic Flesh Tone album too!)and it looks as though we're going to have MIA joining the ranks when she releases her third L.P Maya in July!
but here is soothing pop bliss that shows Robyn has the Artistic Ambitions of Madonna and the synthy edge of Annie Lennox.
dance pop is captured at it's finest here with our Swedish pop Princess!
BRING ON Part 2!!
10/10 A* quality!
It is always nice to hear somebody who can do dance music that actually says something, and Robyn can. Read more
Body Talk Part 1 is a mini album with 8 just tracks; on its own its a fairly a good album to my... Read more
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