release date: Oct. 30, 2002
format: cd
[album rate: 3 / 5] [3,08]
producer: Ghost [Ulf Lindström and Johan Ekhé]
label: BMG Sweden - nationality: Sweden
Track highlights: 1. "Keep This Fire Burning" - 2. "Don't Stop the Music" - 3. "O Baby" - 4. "Blow My Mind" - 9. "Big City"
3rd studio album by Robyn again with producer and musical songwriter songwriter duo, Ghost, on 9 out of 12 tracks, and again with BMG, although, she left the company to have more artistic freedom and signed with Jive Records in 2001, only to realise that her new label had become a sub-label to BMG. The controversy she experienced with My Truth (1999), and the subsequent label decision not to release the album internationally, rebounds on this. The album was released in Sweden and Japan only.
Stylewise, it's Robyn as we know her from her two previous albums. The dance-pop is again at the centre of the songs, which makes this more like a natural follow-up to her '95 debut album, and she has turned down on the American r&b style and instead jumped onto the back wheel of Michael Jackson.
The album spawned the two singles #1 and #2 peaking at number #3 and #7 respectively on the Swedish singles chart list, and the album reached number #2 like the predecessor. Once again, she proves to be up front on the pop scene in Scandinavia, but the album feels as her least interesting to date. There's too much recycling, no really great songs and little originality on what turns out as a bit of an anonymous release.
[ allmusic.com 4 / 5, Gaffa.dk 3 / 5 stars ]
