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9.0
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9.0 |
musicOMH
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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9.0
13416
9.0 |
Rave Magazine
Hopefully Body Talk Part 1 will push Robyn beyond her core audience of pop nerds and gay indie kids, because she deserves to be fucking huge
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8.5
13177
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Pitchfork
In an album full of songs that manage to be both specific and universal, "Cry When You Get Older" might prove to be the most enduring
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8.0
13283
8.0 |
The Guardian
Her defiant independence of spirit and her versatility within the pop idiom show precisely why she should be treasured
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8.0
13175
8.0 |
The List
Her brawn for vitriolic disco monologues, meanwhile, (think ‘Konichiwa Bitches’), is honed anew on ‘Don’t Fucking Tell Me What to Do’. A triumph, all told
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8.0
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BBC
Robyn confidently chronicles the heartbreak and pleasure of epic disco nights like she's ready to rule
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8.0
13347
8.0 |
The Times
Fembot is a piece of hypnotic cyber-funk to set Missy Elliott’s behind a-twitching, Dancing on My Own a digital torch song worthy of Confessions-era Madonna
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8.0
13362
8.0 |
The Sunday Times
Robyn will have her work cut out to match this on Parts 2 and 3 — but so, of course, will the competition
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8.0
13365
8.0 |
Independent on Sunday
If Carlsson can keep this quality going on parts two and three, she won't be saying "Sayonara, Bitches" any time soon
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8.0
13504
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Robyn continues to be as adventurous, original and personal as anyone working in pop music today
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8.0
13744
8.0 |
BBC
The most endearing part of this album, unfortunately short as it is (eight songs and less than a half hour) is how all the styles seem perfectly believable and cohesive here, even the ones she should have no right dabbling in
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Irish Times
On the first of a proposed trilogy of releases this year, Carlsson shows why she’s still shoulderpads, cheekbones and weird choice in millinery above everyone else in the pop parade
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8.0
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State
The engaging layers of emotion which Robyn manages to inject into the most unassuming of songs is what separates her from the majority of her peers
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8.0
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8.0 |
Eye Weekly
She’s gunning for Gaga-scaled chart domination, and if the first instalment of her three-part Body Talk mini-album series is any indication, she’s got more than enough ammo to complete the mission
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7.7
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Beats Per Minute
Unquestionably the best thing that Robyn has put her name to
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7.0
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7.0 |
PopMatters
Finds Robyn lacing her music with the cheekiness and wit that Lady Gaga mostly keeps on reserve for her outfits and music videos
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7.0
13173
7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
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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7.0
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7.0 |
NME
This first installment 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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7.0
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7.0 |
The Quietus
Pt. 2 actually feels so similar to pt. 1 at points that one wonders if it wouldn't have been better to let the tracks naturally settle into two albums by their lightness or darkness
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6.0
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6.0 |
Uncut
Stomping Eurodisco almost-anthems rub shoulders with crying-on-the-dancefloor confessionals. Print edition only
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6.0
13314
6.0 |
BBC
It’s alarming when the first instalment of a trilogy houses so much filler
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6.0
13198
6.0 |
Q
Print edition only
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6.0
13199
6.0 |
Mojo
A subtle shift away from the Top 40 to something more leftfield. Print edition only
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6.0
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6.0 |
Evening Standard
The first of a trilogy but even at just 30 minutes long with eight songs, it already sounds like she's spreading herself thinly. That's not to say there aren't gems
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6.0
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Daily Telegraph
The core flavour of her music is android techno, albeit impressively blended with juicy pop melodies
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4.0
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The Fly
Robyn’s lyrical car crashes are so ridiculous she could be singing over Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata and we’d still think it was a bit cack
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