One of the reasons Robyn is such a great pop star is the unabashed way she looks to past dance music sounds and trends both mainstream and obscure, and mixes them into her own exuberant style. This five-track EP – a collaboration with keyboardist Markus Jägerstedt and late producer Christian Falk – takes acid house, Italo and weirdo disco and gives them a big-room treatment for 2015.
Opener Lose Control flips a relationship quibble into a kind of instantly gratifying dance-floor catharsis, with a bit of Robyn-esque psychoanalysis thrown in for good measure (“If you can’t control it / you just don’t like it”), and the closing cover of Loose Joints’ Tell You (Today) revels in the timeless combination of a dirty disco bass line and a major-key melody.
With Love Is Free, Robyn once again shows she can bring together discerning dance snobs and accessible-pop fans.
Top track: Tell You (Today)
