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With Body Talk Pt 1 she's ready to finally take her place at pop's top table of greats. For once, the sequel can't some soon enough.
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Immaculately produced, fantastically sung, and loaded with memorable choruses, this eight-song effort has plenty to please everyone from post-dubstep crate diggers to teen tweeters-- often at the same time.
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Robyn's icy, controlled vocals and cool synth textures are almost alienating in their precision, but there's a beating pulse underneath the dance-bot artifice that captures the celebratory catharsis that can be found on the dance floor.
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Loving Body Talk means finding pleasure in the perfect execution of pop conventions; it means recognizing the click.
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On her fifth album, Body Talk Pt. 1, Swedish electro-pop singer Robyn proves she's ready for the dancefloor.
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Who needs 18 tracks? The shorter format leaves you wanting more, which is the desired effect of the first plate in any three-course meal.
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Although only eight songs long, Body Talk Pt. 1 is a fully formed, imagined futuristic world that uses technology to propel it into a future version of the present day.
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Those bookends [songs on this album] are clues to both her defiant independence of spirit and her versatility within the pop idiom, and show precisely why she should be treasured.
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It's Robyn's detours from these tough-gal tunes that offer genuine surprises.
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On Body Talk Pt. 1, Robyn confidently chronicles the heartbreak ("Dancing on My Own") and pleasure ("Dancehall Queen") of epic disco nights like she's ready to rule.
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Capturing the freedom and loneliness of independence, Body Talk, Pt. 1 is a concise set of songs on its own, and an impressive first third of the whole ambitious project.
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Robyn's transition to the boldest--and maybe loneliest--girl in the room allowed her to showcase her versatile range of emotions and musical influences, plenty of which are on display in Body Talk Pt. 1.
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Robyn returned this year with two new EPs with an alleged third one on the way and while the construction of each flatters the contents, taken as a whole, they're wildly uneven. The stronger of the two is Body Talk Pt. 1, with three of ten best singles of the 2010.
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Proclamations that only the music matters, not the units shifted, are liable to ring a little hollow. Nevertheless, there's a lot to like about Body Talk Pt. 1.
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This first instalment is impressive, but thin at eight tracks. Would it not have been better to hold back, and release just one, truly stunning record?
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Not all of Body Talk, Pt. 1 works, although the only real bomb is the chintzy synth reggae of "Dancehall Queen", which attempts to channel "The Tide Is High"-era Blondie (or, failing that, No Doubt) on Robyn's otherwise successful tour through essential pop referents.
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The objective here is more ambiguous, and the tone less frisky and more guarded [than her self-titled release].
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Capped with a Swedish folk gem, Body Talk shows a dancehall queen with more than just blonde ambition.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 37 out of 41
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Mixed: 1 out of 41
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Dec 3, 2020Шведский поп действительно устанавливает высокую планку для остального мира.
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