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The song will appear on singer’s long-awaited new album, ‘Honey’ Robyn unveiled an understated new dance track, “Human Being,” featuring guest vocals from fellow Swedish musician, Zhala. The track was released via the Adult Swim Singles Program, though it will also appear on Robyn’s new album, Honey, which arrives on October 26th. “Human Being” is built around a simple drum groove that thumps over a constant background drone, while additional synths and handclaps inject the cut with extra texture and dimension. The sparse production places the focus on Robyn’s vocals as she sings, “All these emotions are out of date/ I know it’s hard/ No peace of mind, but don’t shut me out/ You know we’re the same kind/ A dying race.” Honey arrives eight years after Robyn’s acclaimed 2010 Body Talk albums. She first teased the record this summer with the new single, “Missing U,” while in September she released the long-awaited title track, which originally appeared in 2017 during an episo...

In 2013, Robyn met an automated version of herself. A group of student engineers in Sweden were building a robot that approximated the Swedish pop star’s freewheeling dancing style, and ever the technophile,  she showed up herself  to observe its progress. She looked on as the diminutive and half-finished machine waved its arms and undulated with an ecstatic tremor. “The robot is cute,” she said hesitantly. “I think that it’s really good that it has a vulnerability to it.” Her words about the synthetic imitator could apply to several fleshier ones as well. It’s been eight years since Robyn released her last album, “Body Talk,” and in the interim, it seems like a whole generation of inheritors has emerged, each one specifically engineered to mimic and embellish her once-unique sensibilities. At first glance, it might seem like Robyn’s heartfelt and brilliant new single, “Missing U,” fits squarely into the current era of bright synthesizers and depressive lyrics. But R...