release date: Nov. 26, 2006
format: cd
[album rate: 4 / 5] [3,82]
producer: Klas Åhlund
label: Konichiwa Records - nationality: Sweden
Tracklist: 1. "Konichiwa Bitches" - 2. "Cobrastyle" - 3. "List of Demands" (Live) (feat. Jenny Wilson) - 4. "Be Mine (Ballad Version)" - 5. "Jack U Off"
1st 5 track studio ep by Robyn is like her eponymous album from 2005 produced by Klas Åhlund and as that released on her newly founded label. After the release of the original Swedish Robyn album in 2005, Robyn started featuring on releases by various UK artists and she released this ep featuring the cover song "Cobrastyle", which would later be included on the international version of her acclaimed 2005 album. The running time is only a little above 16 mins. and track #1 is here in a slightly altered version than the one on her album. "Cobrastyle", originally by Teddybears (who also produced the song here) is the recording one will find on her 2007 album. Robyn's version is quite different from the original and basically just is nicely transformed into her electropop universe. The Saul Wiliams cover "List of Demands" is a soulful live duet, which actually works pretty nicely, despite being a tight lo-fi recorded song, which seems more like a bonus track. "Be Mine" in a "Ballad Version" introduces Robyn's take on her own material by making alternate acoustic / ballad recordings of familiar uptempo Robyn hit songs, and that's another strong version. "Jack U Off" is Robyn's cover of a Prince song that would be included on her 2007 European version of Robyn, and that is like track #3 a song recorded with minimal post-production.
All in all a mighty fine ep that links the two Robyn album editions.
