#195
Robyn - Robyn (Konichiwa, Interscope, 2008)
(I'm referring to the long-delayed U.S. version from 2008 in this post, the original version was released in Sweden in 2005)
Talk about your completely unexpected pop comebacks, I think there were few more left-field than the return of Robyn. Mostly remembered in the U.S. for her 1997 hit "Show Me Love", Robyn gained a huge cult following in the second half of last decade, mostly due to a huge amount of blog buzz (nearly every word of it deserving). Songs like "Konichiwa Bitches", a blipped-out electro take on hip-hop that prefigured Ke$ha by a good five years, and the minimal R&B "Be Mine!" flew around the internet, passed from pop lover to pop lover with feverish fanaticism. Fortunately for us, by the time the album was released in America, huge hits like her cover of Teddybears' ubiquitous "Cobrastyle" and the dancefloor killing "With Every Heartbeat" were added to pad out the tracklist. The complete package makes for a thrilling listen, incorporating almost every aspect of mainstream pop from 1999 through 2005 without ever sounding dated once. Easily one of the most consistently great pop albums of the entire decade and one that was even more exciting for coming from such a surprising source.
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