Pop icon Robyn announces details of ninth album ‘Sexistential’

Pop powerhouse Robyn has announced plans to release her ninth album - the tantalisingly-titled ‘Sexistential’ - later this year. 

Doubling as her first new work since the release of 2018 full-length ‘Honey’, her latest record will follow last year’s 20th anniversary reissue of her 2005 self-titled album. Her new nine-track release once again sees her join forces with longtime collaborator Klas Åhlund, and promises to tie back to her incredible ‘Body Talk’ era; it’s all set for release on 27th March via Young. 

Speaking of the record, Robyn has said it’s designed to feel “like a spaceship coming through the atmosphere at a really high speed and crash landing. That’s how I felt, like I’d had all these experiences searching too far out into space, and now I’m crashing back into myself”.

“Exploring my sensual life is the same feeling as when I make a good song,” she says, of the album’s title, which began as an in-joke. “It’s such a beautiful kind of sensitive vibration that takes so much work to keep afloat. I feel like the purpose of my life is to stay horny - it doesn’t even have to be about sex, but it’s feeling sensual and attracted to things that I enjoy, and not letting anything take over that.”

That’s not all: today, Robyn has shared two of the album’s tracks, following on from the release of its lead single, ‘Dopamine’, back in November. While ‘Talk To Me’ is a funky but sleek number that also features contributions from Oscar Holter and Max Martin, the album’s title track ‘Sexistential’ claims to be “a rap about IVF.” Listen to both tracks below, and checking out the album’s tracklisting underneath the players.