
Robyn
In between Robyn’s beginnings as a blue-eyed R&B siren and her later exploits as a synth-pop dance diva, Sweden’s sweetheart turned her attention to a more attitude-laden sound on her self-titled fourth album. Robyn raps her way through several tracks here, bringing a decidedly tougher persona to the fore. With some help from the more pop-centric single “With Every Heartbeat,” the record made her a global success and pointed the way to her next evolutionary leap.
Swedish has-been self-finances her comeback album and winds up making one of the year's finest, smartest, and most engaging pop records.
The last thing you might expect of a late-'90s Swedish pop singer ("Show Me Love") re-emerging in the U.S. from her Swedish cocoon would be a sharp Euro-R&B album of two-year-old material baited with a recent British hit. But if that description sounds gimmicky, the music doesn't—whether matter-of-factly giving some…
Robyn is definitely a slow-burner, but it’s also everything pop music should be: provocative, poignant, inventive, and fun.