Honey
Nine tracks of warm, liquid house and soft-focus electropop. A deeply personal, slow-burning dance record born from grief and self-discovery.
October 26, 2018 · Konichiwa Records
Nine tracks of warm, liquid house and soft-focus electropop. A deeply personal, slow-burning dance record born from grief and self-discovery.
October 26, 2018 · Konichiwa Records
Pulsing sub-bass softens into a warm, liquid hum, trading the sharp, neon-lit tears of her earlier dancefloor anthems for a slow-burning house groove. After years of silence and heavy grief, this music stops chasing the high-energy peak and settles into the sweaty, humid middle of the night. You can feel the change in the spacious, uncluttered production, where synthesizers shimmer like light reflecting off wet pavement. It is a patient, deeply personal shift toward healing, where the beats do not demand that you dance through the pain, but gently invite you to sway inside it.
“Returning from years of grief and healing, the pop mastermind delivers some of her most satisfying and innovative music”Read review
“Nine songs that glow and pulse with bittersweet sensuality”Read review
“For Robyn, making music is an ongoing exercise in expression, and when heartbreak threatened to silence her, she apparently let the songs do the talking. And the healing”Read review
“With a bit of luck, Honey will sell millions of copies. But musically, it may serve more to open musical doors than create its own unique legacy”Read review
“Like a great DJ set, songs morph into one another thematically and structurally, most notably in the album’s central triptych”Read review
“A sensual odyssey into clubland”Read review
“Listening to Robyn’s music is itself a heartbreak survival strategy for so many of us: we’ll always need the hurt of Body Talk, but the soft liberation of Honey could sustain us — and Robyn — for longer”Read review
“Turning bittersweet memories into utter pop perfection”Read review
“Her masterful command of emotions on the dancefloor slowly reveals itself across another enthralling record”Read review
“Robyn brings together jarring and disparate emotions, immortalising them in magical pop amber”Read review
“The grooves are a bit deeper, the emotions remain true and, as the title suggests, the tracks are sticky as hell, stuck rattling around in your head for days”Read review
“A soft and sad record, drenched in beautiful melodies and irresistible beats”Read review
How does Honey sound next to the rest of Robyn's catalogue?
A deeply hypnotic late night atmosphere settles over these tracks, trading the bright neon glare of peak-hour club anthems for the quiet, restorative glow of a half-empty dancefloor at dawn.
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