As titles go, Robyn’s latest single ‘With Every Heartbeat’ is not that dissimilar to her breakthrough hit from last century, ‘Show Me Love’. As sounds go, there’s a galaxy of difference. In 1995, Robyn was a Swedish teenager working with future Britney Spears hit-maker Max Martin.

12 years down the line, Robyn’s a Swedish twentysomething with her very own record label. Fed up with the lack of artistic control offered by BMG who put out her debut album, she was impressed by the way her fellow Swedes Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer aka The Knife self-financed and released their work. As a result, Robyn’s no longer involved in assembly-line music but rather pop with an electro twist.

An elfin-derriered minx, Robyn has covered both Prince and Beverly Knight. Quelle surprise then that her original material amalgamates the two. There’ll be no shortage of people showing Robyn love now.
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