After nearly eight years away, Robyn has made one of the most anticipated comebacks in pop music with her ninth studio album Sexistential, out now via Konichiwa Records. The Swedish icon, 46, a new single mother, and more emboldened than ever, delivers nine tracks that channel the punchy electropop energy of her era-defining Body Talk trilogy while going to places she’s never gone before.
Produced with longtime collaborator Klas Åhlund and featuring Max Martin among the writing credits, the album is as personal as it is danceable. Robyn described the making of it 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.”
The title track, easily the album’s most daring moment, touches on IVF, single parenthood, and Raya swipe sessions, all wrapped in a confessional club rap that’s unlike anything in her catalog. Critics have responded with near-universal praise, with Rolling Stone and The Guardian both awarding four-star reviews. Sexistential isn’t just a return, it’s a reclamation.
