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Love Is Free

Robyn & La Bagatelle Magique

Love Is Free

Collaboration between Robyn, her keyboardist Markus Jägerstedt, and late producer and club music veteran Christian Falk

ADM rating[?]

7.1

Label
Cherrytree
UK Release date
07/08/2015
US Release date
07/08/2015
  1. 8.3 |   Pretty Much Amazing

    Makes a seriously compelling case that the EP should be the standard form of pop-music communication. Robyn’s latest is all killer, no filler, and leaves you begging for more
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  2. 8.0 |   The 405

    It's a hedonistic celebration of fully letting go and also a chance for Robyn to really wear her influences on her sleeve
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  3. 8.0 |   NOW

    With Love Is Free, Robyn once again shows she can bring together discerning dance snobs and accessible-pop fans
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  4. 8.0 |   Exclaim

    Another gem in Robyn's recent, diamond-studded catalogue
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  5. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    Robyn’s penchant for wonky pop and melancholic disco bangers ensures this mini-album swaggers and sways
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  6. 7.2 |   Pitchfork

    The group is meddling in music history, cranking out five familiar tracks that are too hard not to dance to
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  7. 7.0 |   Slant Magazine

    Feels comparatively tossed off, merely a bridge between Robyn 2.0 and an incarnation of the dance-pop icon we—and she—haven't yet imagined
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  8. 7.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    A profoundly complex and upsetting collection of songs
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  9. 7.0 |   The Music

    Five joyous tracks of carefree retro club indulgence
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  10. 7.0 |   NME

    A reasonably straight-up club record – almost a compilation of singles
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  11. 7.0 |   Gig Soup

    The album isn’t revolutionary by any means, but is an achievement in how it manages to pay tribute to all the different sub-genres Falk admired in such a successful way
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  12. 6.0 |   Spin

    Robyn’s best work rises above mere competence, and while every song here will keep people on the dance floor, Love Is Free transcends nothing
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  13. 6.0 |   The Observer

    Despite the shadow of tragedy hanging over the project, there’s an irrepressible euphoria to the music throughout
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  14. 5.8 |   Consequence Of Sound

    Some solid, if unexceptional club tracks
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