New Music & Video Release - Robyn Releases new album, 'Sexistential', via Young - 27th March 2026
Photo credit - Marili Andre
Artist Name - Robyn
Release Name - Sexistential
Release Date - 27th March 2026
Genre - Synth-Pop, Dance Pop, Indie Pop
Label - Konichiwa Records and Young
Praise for Sexistential:
“Post-‘Honey’, Robyn is looser, more limber; this is an album about feeling everything all at once.” - NME ★★★★★
“Clarifying, skin-tingling, essential” - The Guardian ★★★★
"On Sexistential, Robyn takes a hard pivot back into the giddy joy of straight-up pop music, made with precision and ear-tickling melodic grace that she and her fellow Swedes established as the sound of the global charts a few generations ago." - Stereogum
"A deeply satisfying album about lust, motherhood, and hitting the club" - Rolling Stone ★★★★
“Sexistential is unabashedly confident and truly prismatic pop for its assuring ambition” - Treblezine
"The album makes the tricky business of maturing into middle age feel almost intergalactic." - Slant
"It’s the completely divine sound of hard-won freedom." - Rolling Stone UK ★★★★
“This is what freedom sounds like, and why the world has been waiting for Sexistential for so long” - Spin
“This is pop that goes deep” - The Times ★★★★
READ THE LIBEL MUSIC REVIEW OF ROBYN’S SEXISTENTIAL LISTENING PARTY AT WHAMMY
Generational pop icon Robyn today releases her acclaimed new album Sexistential. Released via Young, Sexistential is Robyn’s first album in eight years and is the most ecstatic record that she’s ever made: the sound of one of contemporary music’s most influential artists coming home. After the club music meditations of 2018’s Honey, the album features nine, deeply playful pop songs that tie back to her era-defining Body Talk trilogy, designed to feel “like a spaceship coming through the atmosphere at a really high speed and crash landing,” she says. “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.”
Co-produced with longtime production collaborator Klas Åhlund, and reuniting her with Max Martin for their first co-writes since 2010, Sexistential is emphatic and punchy, defiant about both emotional and biological pleasure, need and softness. The album’s title started life as an in-joke before she realised it said everything she wanted to say. “Exploring my sensual life is the same feeling as when I make a good song,” she explains. “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.” Robyn recently further explored these themes in recent cover profiles in The Face, Vogue Scandinavia, ZEIT Magazine, The Cut (where she fielded questions from the likes of Carly Rae Jepsen, Esther Perel, Charli xcx, Troye Sivan and more) and a Jia Tolentino-penned New Yorker profile.
Robyn celebrated the album’s release with an intimate live performance at London’s Hackney Empire last night, performing songs from the album live for the first time to a rapturous response. Robyn also recently announced The Sexistential Tour, taking place in arenas across Europe, North America, and Australia. After 14 years, Robyn is returning to Australia for her Sexistential World Tour in November 2026, featuring arena shows in Sydney (Nov 21st) and Melbourne (Nov 24th). It’s Robyn’s first major tour since 2019 and will feature her biggest ever headline shows. Tickets are on sale now and fans should head to robyn.com/tour for full details.
Meanwhile, a run of recent Robyn public appearances have created huge anticipation and speculation around Sexistential. Whether performing with David Byrne to celebrate Saturday Night Live's fiftieth anniversary, appearing on CNN’s New Year’s Eve broadcast with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen, delivering a standout performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, headlining her own New Year’s Eve shows in NYC, making show-stopping live appearances with the likes of Charli xcx and Gracie Abrams, collaborating with Yung Lean and Charli for a version of Brat’s “360,” soundtracking Acne Studio's 2025 Paris show and starring in their SS26 campaign, or being announced to support Harry Styles at ten stadium shows in Amsterdam, Robyn continues to shape and influence popular culture on her own unique terms.
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