Generational Swedish pop icon Robyn and UK electronic innovator Jamie xx today reignite their rich creative partnership. Having previously collaborated on ‘Life,’ one of the biggest singles from Jamie xx’s highly-acclaimed and hotly-anticipated 2024 album In Waves, the pair come together for a remix of ‘Dopamine’ – Robyn’s first single in over seven years and one of the year’s most electrifying pop moments. It’s an ultra-rare remix from Jamie – his first in three years – and sees the London-based artist, DJ and producer remixing the original into dancefloor bliss.
Speaking about the remix, Jamie says: “I had a blast making this remix, the original song is so great it was mega fun to get to play around with it. Thanks Robyn! Looking forward to playing it on some dance floors v soon”
Listen to ‘Dopamine (JAMIE XX REMIX)’ HERE
Robyn – ‘Dopamine (Jamie xx Remix)’
Released on 12th November, ‘Dopamine’ saw Robyn teaming up with longtime collaborator Klas Åhlund for one of the decade’s most hotly-anticipated comebacks. Released via new label home Young, it’s a song that captures the rush of chemical euphoria that floods your body when you fall in love – that dizzying high when emotion and biology blur. It’s the sound of desire and doubt colliding: the feeling is real, yet you’re aware it’s a hormonal illusion. Sonically, the track mirrors that tension and intensity – intoxicating, pulsating, and euphoric, like coming up from the very high it evokes.
The response to ‘Dopamine’ has been rapturous, with The Face describing it as “an addictive rush of arena ready pop,” while The Guardian added “it’s complicated and messy: it’s also an unequivocal pop banger. Which of course, makes it very of the moment, but also makes it very Robyn,” and Pitchfork exclaimed “the arch of hesitancy, surrender, and resolve in her voice is incredibly moving, and a reminder that the fine, human way she phrases pop is worth years of waiting.”
The single dropped among a run of recent public appearances – including an intimate live show at Los Angeles’ Fonda Theater on 19th November and a forthcoming sold out show at Brooklyn Paramount on New Year’s Eve – that have created huge anticipation and speculation around new Robyn music. Whether performing with David Byrne to celebrate Saturday Night Live’s fiftieth anniversary, making show-stopping live appearances with the likes of Charli xcx and Gracie Abrams, collaborating with Yung Lean and Charli for a version of Brat’s ‘360,’ or soundtracking Acne Studio’s 2025 Paris show, Robyn continues to shape and influence popular culture in truly unique ways.
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