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On Body Talk Pt. 2, this eight-track follow-up to June's Body Talk Pt. 1, the Swedish electro-pop pixie uses sleek club music to endearingly explore more unpolished emotions.
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Robyn bounds back onto the dance floor on Pt. 2 with seven breathless, synth-driven gems.
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90A brief, brilliant record that leaves you panting, Body Talk, Part 2 is the latest evidence that Robyn is probably the best, most versatile pop star currently at work.
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Oct 27, 201080What Robyn has proved over the years is that you don't have to sound mainstream to appeal to the mainstream.
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With not a single duffer over another eight tracks, it looks like our eventual Best Of Body Talk compilation might just be the album of the year.
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80Lady Gaga apart, the most interesting stars in 2010 are women in their 30s and beyond, artists with phosphorescent personalities that might burn the fingers of anyone wishing to mould them. Singers like Alison Goldfrapp, Grace Jones and Robyn Miriam Carlsson.
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80Minor quibbles and missteps aside, Body Talk Pt. 2 is a perfectly solid-- and occasionally awesome-- record.
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Two thirds of the way through the Body Talk project, it's clear that this experiment is reaping rich rewards for Robyn and her listeners.
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80Swedish popstrel on fine form, midway through her trilogy. [Nov. 2010, p. 114]
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80Body Talk Pt 2 is the all-action follow-up: faster, harder, clubbier. There are no tongue-in-cheek dancehall try-outs here, no Swedish folk songs, nothing as quirky as Fembot. This is the Body Talk for people who like their Robyn upbeat, fierce and dancefloor-ready.
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80On the first three tracks, she tackles enduring pop-music themes like love, loneliness and friendship with the kind of unsentimental yet empathetic songwriting fans of the Pet Shop Boys might admire. Midway, her worldly confidence morphs into outright cockiness and the beats grow aggressive.
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80Danceable, downtrodden songs buoyed by a hint of self-willed confidence are Robyn's specialty
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Somehow the mistakes she made before-experiments with Swedish folk tunes, reggae-pop, and fringe-aesthetic miscellanea, having achieved varying degrees of success with each attempt-have become character-building idiosyncrasies she now seems borderline faceless without.
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75Show Robyn some love - she deserves better than one-hit-wonder tag she's been saddled with, and she's finally getting it.
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Robyn could've put together a single album filled with all-knockout jams, but it's better than she got to exercise her brain trying to fit in everything she wanted.
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The album is no Robyn and it doesn't quite match Body Talk (Part 1) in terms of the sheer number of highs.
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Robyn sings and raps about standard diva themes (dance-floor ecstasy, self-reliance), but the music is deliciously wacked-out.
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70Most of Body Talk Pt 2 is more of the same, but Robyn does occasionally take some significant risks.
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Pt. 2 is further evidence that Robyn is still one of the most consistently innovative major-label pop artists working today.
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60It's great when artists learn to produce work that has more than one dimension to it. Robyn's has two. I'd just like to see her develop one or two more.
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60Robyn is a sharp, sassy star capable of making heartbreaking, cutting edge, electro-pop seemingly with ease.
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And what a voice it is, dominating Body Talk Pt. 2 to a severe degree. Her alto, which sometimes mimics but never goes as far out as Kate Bush or Cyndi Lauper's, is like a fluorescent light on her music, washing out everything in its wake. If you love her voice, great; if you don't, it will cloy you to death.
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40Three LPs in a year is only a good idea if you have enough songs. [Oct. 2010, p. 94]
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