{"id":2226813,"date":"2026-01-08T09:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T09:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2226813"},"modified":"2026-01-08T09:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T09:39:09","slug":"robyn-returns-patron-saint-of-sad-pop-bangers-is-finally-back-with-a-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/robyn-returns-patron-saint-of-sad-pop-bangers-is-finally-back-with-a-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Robyn returns: patron saint of sad pop bangers is finally back with a new album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"main\">\n<div class=\"hydrate-root sc-10wlkbs-0\" data-component=\"Newsletter\" data-loading=\"lazy\" data-theme-name=\"base\">\n<aside class=\"sc-y4bm30-0 jwWhkK newsletter-component sc-1ge0fwe-0\" data-newsletter-key=\"receiveMusic\">\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-2 kcLSBk\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-1 inRDZn\">\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-3\">\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-4 hfveGa\">\n<p><h3 class=\"sc-y4bm30-5 sc-y4bm30-6 fvoxRM fafQAy\">Get the inside track from Roisin O&#8217;Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"sc-y4bm30-5 sc-y4bm30-8 fvoxRM fvWmZq\">Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"sc-y4bm30-5 sc-y4bm30-7 fvoxRM hkVmms\">Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><svg class=\"sc-eaj12q-0 hKcUSR sc-culv3z-0 eifaJK sc-1ix0cah-0 PYnPb sc-y4bm30-10 fUEDPX\"><use href=\"#600f53465147d717\"\/><\/svg><\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-2 kcLSBk sc-y4bm30-9 iQYNfz\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/static-assets\/images\/newsletters\/nowHearThis1_2.png\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Roisin O\u2019Connor\u2019s\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>Call your girlfriend\u2026 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/music\/robyn-honey-album-review-music-industry-feature-a8602411.html\">Robyn <\/a>has decided it\u2019s time for her first album in seven years. <\/p>\n<p>The queen of the sad banger has announced that she will release her hugely anticipated ninth album this year, ending the long wait since <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/music\/reviews\/robyn-honey-album-new-review-sweden-dance-pop-tracklist-a8600751.html\">her critically acclaimed 2018 record <em>Honey<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sexistential <\/em>will be released via her new label Young Recordings on 27 March, with the Swedish singer sharing two new tracks today to tease the album. <\/p>\n<p>One, \u201cTalk to Me\u201d, is a glittery, self-described \u201chorny\u201d club banger referencing <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/adam-driver-interview-girls-star-on-the-fear-of-working-with-martin-scorsese-9787314.html\"><em>Girls <\/em>star Adam Driver<\/a>; the other, the title track \u201cSexistential\u201d, is a surprising rap about Robyn seeking one-night stands while pregnant from IVF. <\/p>\n<p>The album itself is being teased as the \u201cmost ecstatic\u201d Robyn has ever made, \u201cthe sound of one of contemporary music\u2019s most influential artists coming home\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Comprising nine \u201cdeeply playful\u201d pop songs, it is, Robyn says, designed to feel \u201clike a spaceship coming through the atmosphere at a really high speed and crash landing\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s how I felt,\u201d she continues, \u201clike I\u2019d had all these experiences searching too far out into space, and now I\u2019m crashing back into myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-awdjp1-2 cbpRGD sc-awdjp1-3 image align-center\">\n<figure class=\"sc-1cbdeug-0 cXcwgU\">\n<div class=\"sc-awdjp1-0 dKLSGM\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2026\/01\/07\/13\/12\/250925_ROBYN_Credit-Marili-Andre_S01_268_FLAT-(1).jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2026\/01\/07\/13\/12\/250925_ROBYN_Credit-Marili-Andre_S01_268_FLAT-(1).jpg?quality=75&amp;width=320&amp;auto=webp 320w, https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2026\/01\/07\/13\/12\/250925_ROBYN_Credit-Marili-Andre_S01_268_FLAT-(1).jpg?quality=75&amp;width=640&amp;auto=webp 640w\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Robyn is releasing a new album in 2026\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"sc-1cbdeug-1 sc-1cbdeug-3 gtVitN hgzWpY\">Robyn is releasing a new album in 2026<span class=\"sc-1cbdeug-7 exGSyR\"> <!-- -->(<!-- -->Marili Andre<!-- -->)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Robyn has form when it comes to making fans wait for new music. <em>Honey <\/em>arrived almost a decade after its predecessor,<em> Body Talk,<\/em> the final part in her trilogy of the same name. But that doesn\u2019t mean the &#8220;Dancing on My Own&#8221; artist has stayed completely off the radar \u2013 news of<em> Sexistential<\/em> comes after her New Year\u2019s Eve performance on celebrity.land plus two sold-out shows at Brooklyn Paramount. <\/p>\n<p>She also sang with David Byrne as part of <em>Saturday Night Live\u2019<\/em>s 50th anniversary celebrations, and teamed up with Charli XCX and Yung Lean for a version of the British pop star\u2019s track \u201c360\u201d, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/music\/news\/charli-xcx-brat-album-record-label-b2858878.html\">from her zeitgeist-domating 2024 album, <em>Brat<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sexistential\u2019<\/em>s title apparently began first as an in-joke, until Robyn realised it expressed her belief that \u201cexploring my sensual life is the same feeling as when I make a good song\u201d. <\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-118zqaw-0 ijrISW\">\n<div class=\"sc-118zqaw-9\">\n<div class=\"sc-118zqaw-3 bnPMtb\">\n<div class=\"sc-118zqaw-4 hqeEpq\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/static-assets\/images\/mobile-stores\/Amazon_Music.png\" width=\"129\" height=\"36\" alt=\"Amazon Music logo\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-118zqaw-5 erkCqL\">\n<p class=\"sc-118zqaw-6 fwMNvw\">Enjoy unlimited access to 100 million ad-free songs and podcasts with Amazon Music<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-118zqaw-7 euVGoL\">Sign up now for a 30-day free trial. 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If you sign up to this service we will earn commission.<span class=\"disclaimer-break\"> This revenue helps to fund journalism across The Independent.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s such a beautiful kind of sensitive vibration that takes so much work to keep afloat,\u201d she continues. \u201cI feel like the purpose of my life is to stay horny \u2013 it doesn\u2019t even have to be about sex, but it\u2019s feeling sensual and attracted to things that I enjoy, and not letting anything take over that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe data-testid=\"embed-iframe\" style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/2LgP372uDg95aauyYKpuKJ?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>She certainly achieves that on \u201cTalk to Me\u201d, a dizzying dance-pop track produced by Klas \u00c5hlund and Oscar Holter, and co-written with Swedish pop svengali Max Martin (his first collaboration with Robyn since 2010\u2019s \u201cTime Machine). \u201cI wrote it during the pandemic when there was no way to be physical,\u201d Robyn says in her announcement for the new album. \u201cI like talkers, that turns me on.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>She says &#8220;Sexistential\u201d was conceived after Andre 3000 claimed no one would want to hear him rap about his colonoscopy. Robyn disagreed, loving the idea of a rap that some might deem to be \u201ctoo much information\u201d. She\u2019ll perform the song tonight (Wednesday 7 January) on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.<\/p>\n<p>Robyn\u2019s return signals the latest big moment for women in pop, following a gargantuan 2025 that saw major releases from Lily Allen, Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Dean and Lady Gaga, along with new milestones for rapper Doechii and pop star Chappell Roan. <\/p>\n<p>The tracklist for<em> Sexistential<\/em> is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>1. Really Real<\/p>\n<p>2. Dopamine<\/p>\n<p>3. Blow My Mind<\/p>\n<p>4. Sucker For Love<\/p>\n<p>5. It Don\u2019t Mean A Thing<\/p>\n<p>6. Talk To Me<\/p>\n<p>7. Sexistential<\/p>\n<p>8. Light Up<\/p>\n<p>9. into The Sun<\/p>\n<p>The album is scheduled for release on LP, CD, limited cassette, digitally and as a deluxe LP, all of which are available to pre-order now. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.independent.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get the inside track from Roisin O&#8217;Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Call your girlfriend\u2026 Robyn has decided it\u2019s time for her first album in seven years. 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