Robyn

I was turned off by "Fembot" because it seemed wholly unnecessary, like she redid "Bum Like You" with all of the fun sucked out of it or something; still willing to check out the album, though.

need to listen to this album before i discuss further methinks

Listening to her cover of "Try Sleeping With a Broken Heart" right now. It's obvious it was just thrown together for an in-studio performance on Radio 1, but if she fleshed this out in the studio it could probably work really well.

SFJ in the New Yorker:

Robyn’s lyrics are a mash of language from everywhere and nowhere, and sound decidedly un-Swedish: “I press trigga, I don’t press people button / Nobody tjaffs come face me with something / like how I have twenty-two inna me something / Ten is for you so who gon’ get the next dozen, fool.” That kind of borrowing could be off-putting coming from someone who was trying to pass herself off as Sweden’s dancehall queen.

Mad Cobra's lyrics, one presumes?

I think Lex might be the brutal dictator you're looking for. He's recently been talking about beheading Frankie Boyle so I think he's got the chops for the job.

He may end up being a bit too busy beheading pop stars who are over 35, are fat, with a beard, and have been around since the 80s or earlier....

ok i like 'don't fucking tell me what to do'

i think this is the closest i've come to a guilty pleasure, like, ever

I wholeheartedly love this record. Was super-disappointed by Fembot as a leak, but without the "pointless sequel to Girl & The Robot" factor it fits well after Don't Fucking, and the autotuning for effect not only works thematically but sounds great too. The tail-off of the two downbeat/acousticy twaddle songs at the end works SO MUCH better than on the 2005 Robyn; partly because they're not outweighed by so many bangers and Bum Like You beforehand, partly because they're both dope. I feared a song called "dancehall Queen" written & produced by Diplo before hearing it, but it's a great fakeout, with cultural magpieism present only in absentia, as a touchstone for 'Robyn' to long for. And the more emotions, items and people she has to long for, the more amazing songs we get from her (even though she didn't write it).

Can't WAIT for Dancing On My Own when she tours. That's going to be immense.

http://pitchfork.com/news/39451-new-robyn-album-gets-a-release-date/

Robyn promised us three new albums this year, and it looks like she really might come through. After last month's brilliant Body Talk Pt. 1, her next release-- appropriately titled Body Talk Pt. 2-- is due September 6 in the UK on Konichiwa/Island.

Keeping things moving, the Swedish singer is also set to release a new, danced-up version of Pt. 1's killer ballad "Hang With Me" as a single on September 5. Robyn also recently recorded a track with Snoop Dogg, but it's still unclear whether the duet will end up on Pt. 2 or Pt. 3.

ok wtf i am a big fan of robyn's work but how can one objectively think that this last record was "brilliant" or that hang with me is "killer" (esp when compared to some of her previous ballads which actually ARE borderline-"killer," whatever that means)? it is a very good ep-esque thing but that's about it. maybe if pitchfork didn't hype her up so much they wouldn't feel obligated to praise the shit out of her work when it doesn't really deserve it that much

"Don't Tell Me What To Fucking Do" kind of shames the rest of this

i always feel like Dancing on my own is pretty middling until it gets to the title line, when i start to cry

ok wtf i am a big fan of robyn's work but how can one objectively think that this last record was "brilliant" or that hang with me is "killer" (esp when compared to some of her previous ballads which actually ARE borderline-"killer," whatever that means)? it is a very good ep-esque thing but that's about it.

guess u told me!

sry i didn't know that my opinion on robyn's recent material seemed so aggressive... ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCI1YkP5zyc&feature=player_embedded#at=51

Hang With Me (Single Version)

Danced up, kind of a banger in the Dancing On My Own template, but at the end of the day, I think I like the stately string arrangement of the Acoustic take more.

letterman performance was pretty great

yeah, that sounds more like a demo. could come good with a Rex The Dog remix but the acoustic pwns it. (xpost)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TlwcQn5eBI

incredible performance

I like Robyn but I like ilx user rrrrobyn more

just saw this, great performance. i'm definitely gay for Robyn.

but was that live?

Robyn also recently recorded a track with Snoop Dogg

!!!

Basically I am with the others here who express a bit of disappointment at this record. I would really really like her to do more interesting things with her sound; she's refined the shiny tech-electro-pop template past the point of interestingness at this point (imo)

"Don't Fucking Tell Me What to Do" and "Dancing on My Own" ARE pretty great, though.

Holding out for more good things in Sept! (Autumn tour tix just went on sale I believe - big venues this time!)

robyn finally got her first #1 single in sweden w/ dancing on my own, grats robyn

!!!

She was on a remix of Sexual Seduction back in ’07 or whenever, and the new song is on the announced BT pt2 tracklist

part 2 is floating about...

"In My Eyes" is very good at being a Robyn track but "Hang With Me" is my fave on first listen. Not sure whether if "We Dance to the Beat" is a joke -- "We dance to the beat of the continents shifting under our feet". I laughed out loud at least.

I wasn't expecting the track with Snoop to be a full stomp uptempo banger, but he shines in that setting.

Include Me Out, Criminal Intent and U Should Know Better are the stand-outs beside Hang With Me. Good EP tho.

"Include Me Out" is holy moly. BAM

has anyone been to any of the All Hearts shows? she killed it at webster hall the other day (kelis was great too)..my neck hurts from dancing so much. and i caught the drumstick she threw into the crowd!

she's a beast live and such a pro about it.

I saw her at OSHEAGA last weekend, but Kelis cancelled last minute.

so what is ILM's opinion about Body Talk PT2? i'm just getting this now.

now i see two comments up thread, i thought this just leaked but it has been out for a few days.

not out until 24th Sept here. also costing 33% more than vol 1! BOOOO.

I think part two works better as a whole than the first one. At this stage if I made my own compilation of the two I would leave off Dancehall Queen, Hang with me (acoustic) and Jag ven et dejlig rosa off part one and maybe just We Dance to the beat off this latest one.

The full version of Hang with me is really great and a very good single choice, she's going to have an amazing Singles collection one day.

Criminal Intent sounds like an update of Curriculum Vitae from Robyn.

Indestructible is pretty special, if they do a full version of it for volume three it could be in the same league as The Girl & the Robot and With Every heartbeat.

U Should Know Better is my favourite at the moment, the chorus keeps getting stuck in my head. As Johhny Fever said earlier Snoop sounds great on this kind of song.

the phrase "include me out" bothers me more than like even 'come and take a ride on my discostick'

I thought I was the only one. Nice tune though.

Oh man, just hearing "We Dance to the Beat" for the first time and loving it.

Really *beautiful* video for the single version of "Hang With Me". Might be my fave vid this year in fact.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3a2qoyONVA&feature=av2n

What a great video. I have stopped bothering (or more accurately never bothered) trying to feel a personal connection to musicians but that makes me want to, well, hang with Robyn.

I love Robyn. I love Hang With Me. I like the video. What is it you guys love about it so much? Isn't a standard (though well shot) artist on tour video?

On a purely technical level it's a very well made video; beautifully shot, edited and composed in general. Also, the director owes a clear debt to Andrea Arnold's style (her film Fish Tank for example), which is no bad thing imo.

But I also think it gives a real glimpse into the touring life of Robyn and her band, in a very honest and direct manner - from the coach trips, to the instore shows, to fanclub stuff, interviews and then a festival gig. I guess I just find this interesting as her videos are usually much more stylised, this has a very beguiling openness to it.

The things that make it my fave this year though: the rollercoaster clip and the pure joy on her face (and the way this is cut with the drop of the chorus), the intercutting in the finale between the bedroom practice and the big show (and Robyn giving it heaps in both), and the tiny detail around 1:35 of the young girl who is clearly a *huge* fan - that look on her face is how I want great pop music to make me feel: completely stoked with excitement, a bit embarassed at being spotted and then just giving in to it.

I guess I just find this interesting as her videos are usually much more stylised, this has a very beguiling openness to it.

agreed. this is a really lovely video. one of my favorites from her for sure, and it's not as if she's totally slacking in the video department.

its loveliness was very subtle; it really snuck up on me. i watched this video for the first time thinking, "kinda boring huh" but there was something entrancing about some of these shots that drew me back repeatedly over the next few days. i don't think i ever watched the "dancing on my own" video more than once or twice.

I just heard the new version of "hang with me". WOW. Robyn is BACK.

Her voice annoys me on this EP: that quaver underscores her "vulnerability" in too grating a manner.

there's something a little patronising about 'hang with me' but I've known girls like that

I'm starting to think that I like Chord Changes Robyn and am lukewarm on Ride a Vamp Robyn.

Body Talk Pt. 2 streaming at guardian.co.uk

What's the verdict?

Guilty.