Robyn

Most disappointing thing about this is that Robyn has confirmed in promo interviews that she still hasn't started writing her own album yet.

― ginuwine's cousin (monotony)

Oh yeah, this was heartbreaking to read.

Klas wrote more than Robyn on the Body Talk EPs IIRC, she's just not a prolific songwriter

Really wish Monument ended after six minutes instead of almost. I think it's quite a beautiful song but it just goes on too long.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB27jQkO0Cs

pretty sweet performance of one of the best songs of all time

Arrived in Australia today. The booklet smells GREAT.

(7 out of 12 arms on the spider broken, though :( )

This is awesome.
Monument on repeat.

Unfortunately it's a bore to me. She's just not the kind of singer from whom I expect to stand still through electrotrance.

Have you hated Royksopp in the past?

(I like that this is its own thing, not like either artist's other work nor their past collabs)

1) I love how Robyn essentially feels like a guest on this, the same way various ringers would show up on Massive Attack albums.

2) This album gives off the same sad robot vibe as the last Daft Punk.

If you took all the best songs from the Body Talk Eps and put them on one record it would be one of the albums of the decade fer sure. They tried that but messed it up by inexplicably leaving Cry When You Get Older off .

This new one is not in the same universe in terms of catchy tunes. Maybe it will sink in on further listens.

Different animal, really.

Monument is stunningly dull but Sayit's Run Lola Run meets Computer World slant is really something special IMO

Do It Again is fine but not really terribly special to my ears

i love monument!

robyn's songs have always had gothy/weirdo loner undertones to me, monument just seems like a more explicit embrace of that aspect

but it's sooooo looooong and nothing happens!

I feel like stuff totally happens! It's a journey. Those saxophones (?) in the middle section!

zzzzzzzaxaphone

You mean SeXXXaphone

I have been playing lots of music in my car. Sometimes the kids are with me. They rrrrreally love Robyn. (Fell asleep to Fugazi and El-P).

what's supposed to happen? like if u expect a big glittery crescendo that's more yr expectations and not the music y'know? xxp

What's supposed to happen is the song stops at minute 5 or 6 not minute 22

On Jimmy Kimmel last night

http://youtu.be/ADp6vtyindY

^ that was Do It Again, here is Monument 'on' Kimmel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InVu3BrYbIc

what a terrible choice to do on a big stage in full daylight in front of non-fans btw

what a terrible choice to do on a big stage in full daylight in front of non-fans btw

They barely even edit it down.

Um, that video aside, is her live show pretty good? I was on a whim thinking about buying tix, not a huge fan or anything but we've been feeling the urge to go see a concert that's a little larger and poppier and dancier than our normal fare.

losing battle on my part i guess but i LOVE monument

stevie.

we get it.

you hate "monument".

jeez.

last time I saw her (which was about four years ago) she was amazing and totally won over a fairly sceptical festival crowd. Just a really fun show

Yeah she is fantastic live.

(realises she hasn't been here for six and a half years, cries)

24 minutes of Royksopp (or is it?) + Robyn live :

http://concert.arte.tv/de/melt-2014-royksopp-robyn

They also do this song, with that great audience participation bit after about 50 seconds :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7yMqVnrDNs

I got shivers when it got to the first chorus. Amazing.

New video with Under the Skin vibes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c-RbGZBnBI&feature=youtu.be

So that's her boyfriend (he directed this video - there's a link to the behind the scenes at the end)

i like the video

new remix of Monument, is it lively enough for Stevie D?

really like the video and the song is clearly the best from this project

new remix of Monument, is it lively enough for Stevie D?

yes \(^o^)/

http://www.popjustice.com/thenews/robyns-said-some-things-about-a-new-ep/130111/

new EP might be on the way - but more importantly, Christian Falk died?!?!?!? :'(

This is flippant next to that news but actually I am kind of desperate for that behind the scenes with Robyn's boyfriend/director to be a parody otherwise it's like, how could you, Robyn, how could you cheat on me this way? How could you cheat on me with Garth Algar?

show was fun yesterday but way too much Royksopp...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL8cdjFcLKM

^

http://www.npr.org/2014/10/12/354284791/first-listen-master-mix-red-hot-arthur-russell

Arthur Russell can be a vexing subject for tribute, for all the many reasons he was peculiar and unique. Few other expressive cellists have proven to be especially good with disco, as he was, and the same applies even more the other way around. Add his capacity — from the 1970s until his death in 1992 — for expressive synth-pop, free-flowing folk and even airs of country music, and the makings of a truly inimitable character are born.

Count it as a feat, then, that Master Mix: Red Hot + Arthur Russell pays tribute by throwing more at Russell's musical persona than a musical persona would seem suited to withstand. Assembled as a benefit for the Red Hot Organization's ongoing fight against AIDS (which counts Russell among its victims), the double-length collection gathers figures from indiedom and outsider-music circles of various kinds. José González starts stirringly with a spacey take on "This Is How We Walk On The Moon" that captures the wavering, quavering grain of Russell's singing voice while wandering through sonic flights of fancy that sound out-there and bizarre, but also totally natural. A haunting short bit by the mystical keyboard tickler Lonnie Holley follows before the mood shifts abruptly into one of disco exaltation, by way of Robyn's bright, joyful, intensely horn-strewn cover of "Tell You (Today)."

Yes, came here to post about that--her track is deelightful! The whole thing's really good (although Hot Chip should pump up the volume, esp. if 11 minutes plus, by far the longest, I think; feels it, anyway)(and Banhart is a bit murmury for "Losing My Taste For The Night Life," but esp. considering it's him, not bad). Good range and cohesion, tho my personal faves are disco prisms: versions by Scissor Sisters, Vega Intl., and Robyn.

I really like the Jose Gonzalez cover even thought he does nothing particularly innovative with it.

Can anyone recommend some good remixes of Robyn songs?

Rex The Dog mix of Who's That Girl