Robyn joins host Talia Schlanger

Back in 2018, Robyn released her first new album in 8 years, Honey. While making it, she was dealing with the end of a relationship and the death of a long-time friend. On the World Cafe, as a part of a June Pride month series of encores, hear a conversation with Robyn from around the time when Honey was released. She explains how she used dance and psychoanalysis to cope and to create.

This is an Encore

Today’s Playlist
Rufus Wainwright “I Don’t Know What It Is” Want One
Robyn “Honey” Honey
Robyn “Missing You” Honey
Robyn “Because It’s In The Music” Honey
Robyn “Human Being” Honey
Robyn “Ever Again” Honey
Donna Summer “I Feel Love” I Remember Yesterday
k. d. lang “Constant Craving” Ingénue
Tegan and Sara “Girls Talk” The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Courtney Barnett “Pedestrian At Best” Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
Indigo Girls “Peace Tonight” Come On Now Social
Brandi Carlile “Closer to Fine (ft. Catherine Carlile)” Barbie: The Album
Brandi Carlile “The Things I Regret” WC Recording
Ray Lamontagne “Step Into Your Power” Long Way Home
Jackie Wilson “(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher” Higher And Higher
The Dip “Doing The Thing” Love Direction
Laufey “From The Start” Bewitched
R. E. M. “Leaving New York” Around The Sun

Hour Two
Little Feat “Fat Man In The Bathtub” Waiting For Columbus
The Decemberists “Oh No!” As It Ever Was, So It Wil Be Again
Calexico “Cumbia de Donde” Edge of The Sun
Clairo “Sexy to Someone” Charm
Death Cab For Cutie “Little Bribes” The Open Door – EP
Lo Moon “Waiting A Lifetime” I Wish You Way More Than Luck
Lo Moon “Thorns” Lo Moon
Alex G “Runner” WC Recording
Richard Thompson “Persuasion” WC Recording
Tears for Fears “Sowing The Seeds Of Love” The Seeds Of Love
Ginger Root “No Problems” SHINBANGUMI
Peter Bjorn & John “Second Chance” WC Recording
Kacey Musgraves “Cardinal” Deeper Well
Buffalo Springfield “Sit Down I Think I Love You” Buffalo Springfield
Paris Paloma “labour” Cacophony
Roxy Music “Take A Chance With Me” Avalon