Out now: Robyn – Sexistential

Generational pop icon Robyn today releases her acclaimed new album Sexistential. Her first album in eight years and 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 21) and Melbourne (Nov 24). It’s Robyn’s first major tour since 2019 and will feature her biggest ever headline shows. She’ll be joined by an exciting lineup of special guest openers, bringing together a mix of boundary-pushing artists who are both friends of Robyn and among the voices that inspire her. Tickets and full tour details at robyn.com/tour.

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.

Sexistential is available now on LP, Deluxe LP, CD, limited cassette and digitally, including magenta, white and alternate art LP formats across various retailers.

Purchase / stream Sexistential here.