Robi looks entirely like her music, or perhaps it is the other way around. Both are driven by frankness and absoluteness, drawing their strength from intimate contradictions. With this third album, 'Traverse', she sings of summer in response to the winter of yesteryear, now seeking less contrast and sharpness than balance and harmony. With this welcoming and sunny album, Robi offers us a form of memento mori that seems to say: let us drink, let us dance every second that death will not have. With 'Traverse', her music reflects more than ever the woman, the mother, the artist she is today, committed to a path that asserts itself, album after album, as resolutely her own. Elegance." Her very poetic writing evokes a feminine Dominique A. Dense, dark, resolutely wild music. " --- LES INROCKS. ---