Robyn : Sexistential

Sexistential is the most ecstatic record that Robyn has ever made, the sound of one of contemporary musics most influential artists coming home. After the club music meditations of 2018s 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. Thats how I felt, like Id had all these experiences searching too far out into space, and now Im crashing back into myself.

Co-produced mainly with longtime collaborator Klas hlund, Sexistential is emphatic and punchy, defiant about both emotional and biological pleasure, need and softness. The albums 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. Its such a beautiful kind o