“Missing U” by Robyn

"Missing U" was Robyn's way back in: it opened the campaign for Honey, album number eight, and it was the first solo single she'd put out in eight years, since the Body Talk triple album of 2010. It premiered on Annie Mac's BBC Radio 1 show, trailed by a seven-minute short video.

It began in mid-2014 as a laptop demo, with a LinnDrum machine for the beat and a software synth on top, and the words took her two years to get right before she finished them with Joseph Mount and Klas Åhlund, who produced it with her and share the writing credit; Mount plays bass too. The result is synth-pop with disco in its blood: bubbling synths under the chorus and grand synth loops over a bare-bones beat, a song about people who vanish and about Robyn's bond with her fans.

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