release date: Nov. 22, 2010
format: cd
[album rate: 4 / 5] [4,18]
producer: Klas Åhlund
label: Konichiwa Records - nationality: Sweden
Track highlights: 1. "Dancing on My Own" - 2. "Fembot" - 3. "Don't Fucking Tell Me What to Do" - 4. "Indestructible" - 6. "Love Kills" - 7. "Hang With Me" - 9. "None of Dem" (feat. Röyksopp) - 10. "We Dance to the Beat" - 11. "U Should Know Better" (feat. Snoop Dogg) - 12. "Dancehall Queen" - 13. "Get Myself Together" - 15. "Stars 4-Ever"
5th studio album by Robyn, or: a compilation? It's released and filed by most sites as a studio album, but in reality it only contains previously released compositions all issued in the "Body Talk" series Pt. 1-3 counting two mini-albums and one ep. I prefer thinking of this as her 2010 studio album consisting of material taken from two mini-albums and an ep. This also makes sense when taking into account that she in 2014 released an ep titled Do It Again with Röyksopp containing five tracks and with a running time over 35 mins - longer than any of her two first "Body Talk" mini-albums. Five tracks here are taken from each of the three "Body Talk" albums: from Body Talk, Pt. 1 we find tracks #1, 2, 3, 9, and 12, from Body Talk, Pt. 2 tracks #6, 7, 10, 11, and 14, and from Body Talk, Pt. 3 tracks #4, 5, 8, 13, and 15 - In bold: great tracks showing that from my pov, Part 1 delivers three fine songs, Part 2 only one, and Part 3 two fine songs. But really... it's so calculated that she releases five songs from each, when that also means that three songs are left out from both Part 1 and 2, but all tracks are included from the much shorter Part 3, ep. The selection of songs could have been better, and I miss "Cry When You Get Older" from Part 1, and I could easily have thought of "Include Me Out" from Part 2 instead of the two minor fillers "Time Machine" and "Call Your Girlfriend" from Part 3.
Body Talk is a fine album regardless how you file it, but at the end of the day, I prefer to have all three "Body Talk" albums instead of just this one.
[ allmusic.com, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Slant 4 / 5 stars ]
2010 Favourite releases: 1. Søren Huss Troen & ingen - 2. The Chemical Brothers Further - 3. Robyn Body Talk
