release date: Nov. 22, 2010
format: cd
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,62]
producer: Klas Åhlund
label: Konichiwa Records - nationality: Sweden
Track highlights: 1. "Indestructible" - 4. "Get Myself Together" - 5. "Stars 4-Ever"
Studio ep release and last part of the "Body Talk" series is a minimised album compared to the first two parts. Credentials for production and songwriting follows the same recipe as the other releases with Klas Åhlund as major partner and driving force. Robyn's initial announcement about releasing three mini-albums was somewhat altered after Body Talk, Pt. 2, which wasn't released until September. Instead, she now spoke of a full-length Body Talk album to end the year; however, this seems like her first take on a compromise. Part 3 is the first natural ep release as it's almost just half the length of the two first single parts with a running time below 19 mins. It contains five tracks, and it's released - on the date - simultaneously with a promised full-length Body Talk album containing selected tracks from all three mini-albums.
Part 3 full-fills her self-professed idea of releasing 3-albums-a-year in 2010, but it also seems like a compromise in the sense that it's not made as extensive as the two former releases - perhaps she was running out of time, or ideas?? Fact is, the first part wasn't released until June and it should take her another three months to release part 2, and as she was occupied doing live concerts everywhere in a year where she intended to release three albums writing and recording songs while touring... well, needless say, it would take quite an effort, and here as the calendar runs out of months, she could realise her project issuing a single ep, although that would be a bit like letting air out of a balloon, so she also handpicked songs from the three releases and issued the Body Talk album, which in essence feels like a compilation more than a studio album, but as I said, I think that explains the compromise.
After all, Part 3 sums of the year quite nicely. It continues the style of the two predecessors and basically lands somewhere in between in more than one sense. It's styled like a mix of Part 1 and Part 2 as it contains a stronger electropop-style than Part 2, and it also contains some of the same hooks and sparkle that one finds on the first part, and to end the project right, she has included the strong single "Indestructible" in the traditional dance-pop version, which is found on Part 2 in an acoustic version. All in all, it's not the blast it started out as, but it's still more than Okay. Five tracks would be an awesome release thinking of the quality from Part 1, but this ep still contains two obvious fillers, which perhaps points to the conclusion that Robyn was running out of both time and ideas.
[ SputnikMusic, Gaffa.dk 4 / 6, Express.co.uk 3 / 5 stars ]
