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Body Talk
Music Artist : Robyn
Music Label : Cherry Tree
Release Date : 2010-11-22
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After the huge success of 2007's eponymous album (platinum UK), which produced the international 1 smash single `With Every Heartbeat' & the top 10 hit `Be Mine', Robyn is back with her killer combination of natural pop nous and cool sassiness offering up an exciting mix of cool electronica, heartfelt pop songs and tracks that have all the hallmarks of becoming classic club hits.

Due to an abundance of great songs bursting to get out 2010 will see her release not one, not two but three albums. The first, Body Talk PT 1, will be released on June 14th and the single Dancing On My Own released the same day.

Robyn explains: "I got all these great songs so why not? It's been 5 years since "Robyn" and I didn't want to wait with a release until they are all recorded, so I decided to start putting them out right away. I also can't wait to play live again and this enables me to tour and record at the same time. I just want to keep making music."

Robyn has worked with the hottest producers around to make these ambitious plans a reality. Diplo, Royksopp, Kleerup and Klas Ahlund (amongst others) are all on board.

Robyn
Music Artist : Robyn
Music Label : CherryTree
Release Date : 2008-04-29
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2007 UK pressing of the Swedish diva's self-titled album. Although she has been recording for more than a decade, her musical reinvention at the turn of the millennium has increased her profile worldwide. The critically acclaimed album features 15 tracks including the singles 'Konichiwa Bitches' and `With Every Heartbeat'. Island.
Body Talk Pt 2
Music Artist : Robyn
Music Label : Cherrytree / Interscope
Release Date : 2010-09-07
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Robyn - recently heralded as the "critically anointed electro queen" by Spin - expands her pool of collaborators on Body Talk PT 2, bringing aboard Snoop Dogg and Savage Skulls for the second in a trilogy of albums she'll release this year on Cherrytree Records.

The moody "Love Kills" was recorded with Swedish techno-pop duo Savage Skulls and Snoop Dogg is featured on "U Should Know Better." Robyn teamed up again with Klas Ahlund and Diplo for the steely, tongue-in-check rap-pop of "Criminal Intent." Other collaborators include Carl Bagge and Kleerup, producer of the international No. 1 single "With Every Heartbeat" from Robyn's GRAMMY®-nominated, self-titled album, released in 2008 on Cherrytree Records. "Hang With Me" forms a bridge linking the first two Body Talk collections, evolving from a lush, acoustic ballad on PT 1 to a shimmering dance floor delight on PT 2 and tapped as a future single.

Robyn recently gave her current single - "Dancing On My Own" from Body Talk PT 1 - its U.S. television debut on "Late Show with David Letterman." The New York Times called the track "sublime" while The Times of London hailed it as "a digital torch song worthy of Confessions-era Madonna."

Released in June 2010, Body Talk PT 1 has elicited international acclaim. The New York Times noted in a "Critics' Choice" review: "Certainly you could draw a dotted line between Robyn and Lady Gaga . . . But comparisons tend to short-change Robyn." "Is there a more inspiring pop star on the planet than Robyn?" asked NME while People observed: "Before other chicks hopped on the electro bandwagon, she showed the way." US Weekly called Body Talk PT 1 "the best pop album of the year" and Rolling Stone praised its "killer hooks and shiny beats." "[Robyn] is remarkably adept at producing pleasurable, accessible pop that, like some kind of graphite alloy, is light but strong, able to carry humor and emotional weight," said The New Yorker.

Her "All Hearts" North American tour with Kelis was named one of the "25 Must-See Summer Tours" by Spin, which described Robyn as "equal parts Debbie Harry austere, Cyndi Lauper whimsical, and Nina Persson sweet." The Los Angeles Times praised her "muscular, hard-hitting energy" and The Washington Post described her set as "an hour-and-a-half of ebullient pop." The tour concluded on an incredibly high note last week with two sold-out shows at New York City's Webster Hall.

"[Robyn] swept New York City's Webster Hall into a frenzy so wild that it threatened to collapse the floors of that historic venue and send the sold-out crowd straight to their calamitous deaths, still dancing," said EW.com. "I've rarely seen a singer...connect so thrillingly."

Body Talk Pt 1
Music Artist : Robyn
Music Label : Cherrytree / Interscope
Release Date : 2010-06-15
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Robyn - Body Talk, Pt 1

The last time we heard from Robyn, it was 2008. The diminutive Swede was riding high after top ten hits with bittersweet, orchestral-pop hit Be Mine and anthemic dance ballad With Every Heartbeat. The latter song went to number 1 in the UK, shortly after the album Robyn was nominated for a Grammy. Not only did these feats provide a brilliant backdrop to the Platinum selling album from which they sprang, but the success of Robyn was the high point of a comeback which saw the one-time teen popstar reinventing her career on her own terms.

Three years later, and the singer is set to release a triple album in three instalments. Body Talk Pt 1 picks up where Robyn left off, with the emphasis on those sweeping, emotional dance tracks and the biting, quirky rap-pop with which she made her name. The album's title reflects the singer's love of dance culture, having spent three years promoting her last album in clubs across the world. It also reflects her personal intrigue with the disconnect between what your body does and what your mind wants. So, opening track Don't F**king Tell Me What To Do sees her sardonically running through a check-list of guilt-inducing vices- "My drinking is killing me, my smoking is killing me" against a propulsive, glitchy backbeat. It's half manifesto of what the singer represents and half slacker rant. "It's like everyone wants you to be perfect and you're dreaming of a world where you can do what you want. I guess it's about the modern world and the stress I think most people in it feel sometimes. It's a pretentious message so I tried to make it as simple as I could. I'm talking about how I felt when I came off my tour, she explains. Similarly, the rowdily cute Fembot sees Robyn projected as a cartoon character, one who raps that "Fembots have feelings too", and who suffers the blight of the hormonal desires which conflict with what her brain is telling her to do.

Dancing On My Own is the one which will bring a lump to your throat, and the natural successor to With Every Heartbeat. Against an industrial techno beat, Robyn depicts a scene familiar to many: the man she loves is dancing with another woman, oblivious to her presence as she looks on. It is, as Robyn puts it, a song inspired by her love of inherently sad, gay disco anthems such as Ultravox's Dancing With Tears in My Eyes, Sylvester and Donna Summer. Again, it plays on the title Body Talk, because "it's the contrast between dancing, which is such a happy form of expression, and feeling heartbroken. I think those songs get to people because heartbreak is such a lonely feeling but you can share that sadness so easily with the right song."

Robyn also hooked up with Diplo for the track Dancehall Queen, her semi-satirical homage to European mid-90s chart rave and rap acts such as Dr Alban, Technotronic, Leila K and Neneh Cherry. "Sweden had these great pop groups who brought African heritage to Europe and combined their influences with Techno. It turned out Diplo and I were both fans of this period of music, one which a lot of people think is quite cheesy. So when he said he wanted to make an Ace of Base song I burst out laughing, but I loved the idea."

For a short album, Body Talk PT 1 has many dimensions. Later on, we hear the singer offer a spooky, childlike rendition of the traditional Swedish folk song Jag Vet En Delig Rosa, which translates as I Know of a Lovely Rose and was made famous by jazz singer Monica Zetterlund. Robyn even recorded it on the original microphone which Zetterlund used to record her signatory version in the hope of channelling the right atmosphere. And then she switches tracks again; Hang With Me (Acoustic) and Cry When You Get Older offer a wise note to any younger listeners, albeit in the vein of an older sister who'll share her alcopop with you while she's mopping up your tears.

If it seems strange that a popstar would release three-albums in today's current climate, where music lovers are even less inclined to download a whole album than they are to pay for music, you have to consider Robyn's credentials as something of a pop trailblazer. This is the woman who was signed to a major label aged 15, had her first album out at 16 and had toured America before she was 20. While other teenagers were learning about who they were alongside their peers, Robyn's formative years were spent surrounded by what she describes as a "commercial machine", music industry execs who wanted to turn her into the next Christina Aguilera. She released an album called My Truth ("I was so pretentious back then, just look at that title!"), which no one outside of Sweden got hold of. She was working hard, but completely aware that something just wasn't right. And so she severed her ties with the major labels and started her own label, Konichiwa.

She met Klas Åhlund, of Swedish punk group Teddybears, and the pair began working on songs for her eponymous album. "You think that you will disappear if a record company doesn't like you. After compromising so much, I was really questioning everything, then I gave it one last shot, I worked with Klas and we made Robyn." With the benefit of many years of working within the music industry, she was able to do things on her own terms for the first time. "More than anything, I wanted to have fun! What's the point if you're not enjoying it?"

Body Talk PT 1 sees her joining forces with Åhlund once again, which is one reason why the album, though only eight songs long, takes you from techno to dancehall to acoustic ballads and nostalgic Swedish folk songs in one seamless journey, and still sounds undeniably like a Robyn record. Each song on Body Talk PT 1 represents the many sides to this unique, thoughtful, uncompromising artist. It is the woman who has absolutely no trouble telling the wrong guy to back off, and the woman who, on a Body Talk Pt 2, will rap with Snoop ("he wore his slippers the whole time we were recording") and demand the next Pope be a black woman.

At a time when the charts seem to be dominated by female solo artists, Robyn represents one of the few who is actually prepared to be an individual and let the songs do the talking. There're no elaborate costumes, no carefully constructed image, no industry machine; instead of cultivating a pop aesthetic which will guarantee commercial returns, Robyn has spent most of the last ten years doing everything she can to find a way to be herself.

If she can go from weepy dance ballads to Fembots and Dancehall Queens on the first album, imagine what she has up her sleeve for part two?

Robyn Is Here
Music Artist : Robyn
Music Label : RCA
Release Date : 1997-06-24
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This music CD contains 13 tracks and runs approximately 57 minutes 34 seconds.
Body Talk Pt.3
Music Artist : Robyn
Music Label : EMI Import
Release Date : 2010-12-07
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2010 five track CD mini album from the Swedish Pop sensation. Includes the single "Indestructible" and the Max Martin produced "Time Machine".
Don't Stop the Music
Music Artist : Robyn
Music Label : Sony/Bmg Int'l
Release Date : 2003-11-04
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My Truth
Music Artist : Robyn
Music Label : Sony/Bmg Int'l
Release Date : 1999-05-19
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1999 sophomore album from the Swedish Pop sensation. Before she hit the charts around the world with her self titled album and singles like 'Konichiwa Bitches' and 'With Every Heartbeat', Robyn had already unleashed three albums of delectable Pop treats. While her debut album, Robyn Is Here, was a radio-friendly platter of Pop treats, My Truth is a far more introspective affair. Still very Pop, My Truth is an album that showed more depth to Robyn, paving the way for her 2005 breakthrough album. Includes the hit single 'Electric'. RCA.
Robyn Is Here
Music Artist : Robyn
Music Label : Sony/Bmg Int'l
Release Date : 2006-06-12
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the rakamonie EP
Music Artist : Robyn
Music Label : CherryTree
Release Date : 2008-01-29
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She is Robyn. The most killingest pop star on the planet. A pint-sized atom bomb dispensing wisdom in three-minute modernist pop bulletins on the post-adolescent condition. Robin Miriam Carlsson was born in Stockholm, Sweden and spent the first seven years of her life touring with her director father and actress mother in their Constructivist-inspired theatre company. At the age of 13 she was discovered by Swedish pop singer Meja when singing a sad, self-written song about her parents' divorce in a school workshop. Already exploding in Sweden, The UK, France and Australia, Robyn has set her sights on America and is planning a pop overthrow.



      

 
   
 
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