Robyn Announces New Album ‘Sexistential,’ Releases Title Track and ‘Talk to Me’

Robyn has announced her long-awaited ninth album “Sexistential,” releasing on March 27 via Young.

The Swedish pop singer, who previously teased the project with the release of first single “Dopamine,” co-produced the record mainly with longtime collaborator Klas Åhlund and crafted the album to feel “like a spaceship coming through the atmosphere at a really high speed and crash landing,” she says in a release. “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 continues. “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.”

To coincide with the announcement, Robyn released the title track and “Talk to Me,” the latter of which was produced by Åhlund and Oscar Holter and featuring Max Martin as a co-writer, marking their first collaboration since 2010’s “Time Machine.” “I wrote it during the pandemic when there was no way to be physical,” says Robyn. “I like talkers, that turns me on.” She also put out a “Talk to Me” music video directed by Casper Sejersen.

The song “Sexistential,” meanwhile, was co-written and co-produced with Åhlund, described as “possibly the world’s first rap about having one-night stands while 10 weeks pregnant after IVF.” It was “conceived as a riposte to Andre 3000 saying no one would want to hear him rap about his colonoscopy,” reads the release. “It was my cue,” says Robyn. “I have to do this, I have to write a rap about IVF.”

Robyn has been kicking back up on the live circuit in anticipation of the release of “Sexistential,” including a performance on CNN’s New Year’s Eve Live with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen as well as two sold-out shows at Brooklyn Paramount. She last released her eighth album “Honey” in 2018.

Check out the tracklist for “Sexistential” below:

1. Really Real
2. Dopamine
3. Blow My Mind
4. Sucker For Love
5. It Don’t Mean A Thing
6. Talk To Me
7. Sexistential
8. Light Up
9. into The Sun