Robyn – Honey (Island) **** Pop years are like dog years — disappear for more than two and you may as well be gone for ever. Stockholm’s Robin Carlsson is the anomaly. Eight years since she released her last album, Body Talk, the clamour for her return has only grown louder. That’s partly thanks to the ongoing success of her song Dancing on My Own, a UK top 10 hit for her in 2010, prominent again in 2012 in the first series of Lena Dunham’s TV series Girls, and an even bigger hit in 2016 in a wimpy acoustic version by Calum Scott. It set the blueprint for a style of “sad pop” that has become a genre of its own, with everyone from Lorde to Troye Sivan writing songs that can move the feet while prompting a tear at the same time. Robyn’s absence, which has included a long-term relationship break-up, the death from cancer of her close friend and musical mentor Christian Falk and years in therapy, has given her plenty more fuel. However, although Honey sounds downbeat and low-key, it’s far from heartbroken. Written predominantly with Joseph Mount of Metronomy, it ranges from the alien sparseness of Beach2k20, which… Read full this story
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