Robyn

Here is the way I started my day: with Robyn on Ibiza

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzj5kMgfmc4

On or in? It's an island right?

oh i like the added percussion on "missing u" there

yes at the strongest crowd reaction being for "with every heartbeat" <3 inferior rewrite "dancing on my own" could never

only heard the term bop recently when it was used on the bicep thread..did not realize it was oversaturated, will recede

im confused why one of the tracks from the tophat EP is missing, and instead replaced by disco devato..was there other songs from these sessions released elsewhere

missing from what?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzj5kMgfmc4

Dancing on my own
Missing U
Call your Girlfriend
With every Heartbeat

Robyn

duh. soz.

worth repeating

duh. soz.

🤨

https://pitchfork.com/news/robyn-announces-new-album-honey/

Can’t wait

Really interesting interview with her

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/arts/music/robyn-honey-interview.html

it doesn't mention royksopp at all, weirdly (?)

Really weird:

Then [after supporting Coldplay in 2012] she all but vanished.

except for touring solo in the rest of 2012, playing a hometown stadium show in 2013, touring internationally with Royksopp in 2014 and 2015, and releasing half a dozen EPs and singles (plus appearing on a Neneh Cherry record) between 2014 and 2016.

They do say "There was a collaborative EP here, a gig there" after a huge photo of her, but to suggest that ...not putting out studio album after studio album in what amounts to one single calendar year was "the unthinkable" is bonkers, especially when it took her five years to co-write 13 songs before that, and Robyn has only ever released one studio album in the US, and that was in 1995.

(wait, it's a video embed, not a photo, but it still takes up a full "page" of screen.)

yeah, I don't get their layout either - is this a mobile/tablet view or something?

Honey tracklist:
1. Missing U
2. Human Being ft. Zhala
3. Because It's In The Music
4. Baby Forgive Me
5. Send to Robin Immediately
6. Honey
7. Between The Lines
8. Beach 2K20
9. Ever Again

(Robin?)

happy to know from that NYT profile that the rest of the album won't sound much like Missing U, which was ok but kind of a boring retread of everything she's done better before.

xp well, her name is Robin

Her real name is Robin, so that might be not a typo

i really like "missing u" but it did worry me some b/c it's not much of a step forward stylistically

Title track is finally out, and it's great.

this is fantastic!

and did the La Bagatelle Magique EP really get no discussion here when it came out a few years back? i still really like it

the mailing list message is so polite!

"If you want to, you can pre-order my album Honey now <3 "

the mailing list message is so polite!

"If you want to, you can pre-order my album Honey now <3 "

the mailing list message is so polite!

"If you want to, you can pre-order my album Honey now <3 "

:-/

It's not that polite to ask tell us three times, Robyn. We get it.

Honey is so gorgeous. That bass sounds so incredible and warm on headphones. Then those little Moments In Love vocal affects appear and I'm done. I really liked Missing U, but this blows it away.

i just looked this up on YouTube and it is great.

have i told this story? i met her a few years back, she was in Los Angeles and she was telling me that she was trying to lay down some tracks with Snoop Dog, not sure if she did this on purpose but she left behind a CD with some tracks that they were trying to record. so i actually have a CD with some unfinished tracks with Snoop Dog, i believe the song did come out but i have like five different rough mixes of it.

is "u should know better" the last robyn/snoop collab to have been released?

okay "honey" definitely restores my optimism that the album will not only be good but also cover some unexpected territory for her

I keep on expecting Adam Driver's voice over top of it.

"Honey" is so gorgeous, much better than "missing u"

recently relistened to everything she's done from the self-titled onwards and was a little surprised to find my favourite of her releases these days is by far Love Is Free

seems like there's a good chance of Honey besting that though, looking forward to hearing it in a few hours

Here she's going through the album track by track at p'fork: https://pitchfork.com/features/song-by-song/robyn-breaks-down-every-song-on-her-new-album-honey/

this is definitely her best and most interesting album! much closer to the Love Is Free EP than anything else she's done

where are you listening to this?

in australia

that is brilliant, if I have an aussie Spotify account do I get early access to all releases?

aw, i want to live in the future where new Robyn albums are out.

this is one of my favorite tracks on the album https://www.adultswim.com/music/singles-2018/12

Because It's In The Music is so beautiful. One of the best things she's ever done.

extremely disappointed that a flamenco solo was left off of Because It's in the Music

"baby forgive me" is extraordinary

not really feeling "because it's in the music"?? it wants to be a big, lush donna summer number but the arrangement/instrumentation just isn't there imo.

lol @ actual "french kiss" in "send to robin immediately". is lil louis getting paid?