Body Talk by Robyn

Body Talk, Robyn's seventh studio album, arrived on her own Konichiwa Records on 22 November 2010, the capstone of a year-long experiment. She had planned to put out three mini-albums over 2010; Body Talk Pt. 1 and Pt. 2 came out in June and September, and then she folded the best of both, plus five new songs, into one full-length. In some places the new ones also came separately as Body Talk Pt. 3.

It's the purest distillation of her trick: dance-pop and electropop that gets you moving while it breaks your heart, melancholy lyrics riding bright, glassy synths. "Dancing On My Own" is the sleeper hit that became her signature, and "Call Your Girlfriend", "Hang with Me" and "Indestructible" hold up just as well. Max Martin, Klas Åhlund, Kleerup, Diplo, Röyksopp and Shellback all had hands on the controls. Critics swooned over the whole project, and the lists kept coming: Pitchfork put it at number 8 among the best albums of the 2010s, and Rolling Stone ranked it 196 on its 500 greatest of all time.

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