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Jan 11, 2011To be fair, she's still in the process of resurfacing, rather successfully actually, and Body Talk is a fine dance-pop album.
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Jan 7, 2011From "Don't F***ing Tell Me What to Do" to "We Dance to the Beat," her songwriting in that vein is as strong as anybody's. Scattered across her three 2010 CDs is one great album. How I wish this was it.
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Dec 21, 2010Body Talk concludes a triptych of highly enjoyable pop albums. Let's hope we don't have to wait another five years for the next batch.
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Dec 21, 2010Over the course of Body Talk, Robyn has proved that there's real emotion to be found among the ones and zeros of electronic music, and Pt 3. is the culmination of that outlook: euphoric, personal, and inspirational to the last beat.
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Dec 16, 2010The wistful tunes are the big draw here. They're masterworks of pop production, with Robyn's wispy voice weaving through spinning swirls of sugary synthesizers and hip-twitching beats that make it all but impossible to sit still.
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Dec 8, 2010Robyn takes a range of styles from dancehall and rap to house and disco and melds them with her big pop sound featuring four-to-the-floor beats and thoughtful, unsentimental lyrics about love and loneliness.
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Dec 8, 2010It's this underdog story that emphasizes just why Body Talk is such a revelation; it is the musical peak of an artist who has always had a bigger picture for what pop could sound like.
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Dec 8, 2010Body Talk shows just how easily she can churn out hits more frequently than labels can process production teams.
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Dec 8, 2010Overall, though, Body Talk is more focused than Robyn, and just as bold in the intimacy it creates with listeners.
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Dec 8, 2010Spectacular Swedish import Robyn continues to languish in the cult-act remainder bin, but these 15 excellently curated tracks (culled from three 2010 EPs) deserve to change that.
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Dec 8, 2010The first genuinely exciting, no-filler, pure pop full-length album since The Fame.
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Dec 8, 2010Body Talk impresses for its thematic focus and laser-precise editing.
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Dec 8, 2010This disc cherry-picks from two previous Body Talk EPs while tossing in five new tracks.
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Dec 8, 2010When all three parts are taken together, though, it's obvious that somewhere in that mishmash of tracks, Robyn has truly crafted the Album of the Year. Body Talk, however, is not it.
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Dec 8, 2010Whilst this is arguably down to her much-publicised intention to release as much material as possible over a short space of time, one cannot help but wonder whether - with a keen eye on quality control - the Body Talk trilogy could/should have been a truly groundbreaking single album.
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Dec 8, 2010You could argue that Robyn does sexy, bolshy, catchy pop so effortlessly – as evidenced again by the new tracks, especially Call Your Girlfriend – that Body Talk should have been edited into a straightforward killer pop album.
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Dec 8, 2010So, while Robyn shows that her body can certainly do the talking, when it comes to walking the walk she's prone to stumbling in directions she should avoid.
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Dec 8, 2010With Body Talk, Robyn ups the ante for pop stars across the radio dial and raises her own chances of appearing on yours. And for all her three-album talk, she never forgets that cardinal rule of showmanship: Always leave them wanting more.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 187 out of 209
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Mixed: 5 out of 209
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Negative: 17 out of 209
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