2026 is Robyn‘s year. The Swedish-pop legend will release Sexistential, her first new album in nearly a decade, on March 27 via Young.
To accompany the announcement, Robyn dropped the album’s title track, as well as “Talk To Me,” both of which she debuted at a recent New Year’s Eve show in Brooklyn. “Talk to Me,” a hypnotizing haze of happiness, was produced by Robyn’s longtime collaborator Klas Åhlund and Oscar Holter, and co-written with Max Martin — their first time working together since the 2010 Body Talk cut “Time Machine.” In a statement, Robyn said, “I wrote it during the pandemic when there was no way to be physical. I like talkers, that turns me on.”
She takes it to the next level on “Sexistential,” in which she raps about having one-night stands while 10 weeks pregnant via IVF. According to Robyn, she was inspired to write the track after Andre 3000 claimed no one would want to hear him rap about getting a colonoscopy. “It was my cue,” she said. “I have to do this, I have to write a rap about IVF.”
These two singles follow the recent “Dopamine,” released nearly two months ago (as well as a remix with Jamie xx). Robyn performed the euphoric comeback single in Los Angeles in Nov., her first show in five years.
Sexistential, co-produced with Åhlund, marks Robyn’s ninth album, after 2018’s Honey. The singer says the material is meant 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.”
Robyn added that the album title was first an inside joke, before she realized how fitting it was. “Exploring my sensual life is the same feeling as when I make a good song,” she said in a statement. “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.”
Sexistential will be released in various colors of vinyl, including magenta, white, and more. Robyn will perform the title track on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Wednesday evening.
