Robyn’s first new album in eight years has been announced. The Honey follow-up is called Sexistential, and it’s out March 27 via Young. It includes the previously released ‘Dopamine’, one of the best songs of November, and today the Swedish pop star has shared two new songs: the title track and ‘Talk to Me’. They’re both bubbly and ridiculously catchy; ‘Sexistential’ has a lyric video and ‘Talk To Me’ comes with a music video directed by Casper Sejersen. Check them out below.
The title of Robyn’s new album initially started as a joke, but Robyn soon realized it captured an overarching theme in her life. “Exploring my sensual life is the same feeling as when I make a good song,” she explained 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.”
“Talk To Me” was produced by Klas Åhlund and Oscar Holter, and it notably features 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,” Robyn said. “I like talkers, that turns me on.”
‘Sexistential’, meanwhile, was co-written and co-produced with Åhlund. It was conceived as a riposte to Andre 3000, who no one would want to hear him rap about his colonoscopy. “It was my cue,” Robyn remarked. “I have to do this, I have to write a rap about IVF.” She’ll perform it tonight on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Sexistential Cover Artwork:
Sexistential Tracklist:
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
