Listen to Robyn's New Album 'Sexistential'

It's safe to say Robyn is one of the most influential electronic pop stars of the 21st century so far. The Swedish artist's imperial reign of Robyn (2005) and Body Talk (2010, featuring the insta-classic 'Dancing On My Own') hit with atom bomb impact, creating a ripple effect still heard in the works of such major figures as Lorde. Recorded with producer Klas Åhlund, Robyn's vision expressed on her new album Sexistential feels bracingly futuristic and unmistakably her own in our post-BRAT reality — unpacking her present day pursuit of "single motherhood and a more expansive form of sexuality", while intentionally harkening to the synth-dance grooves of Body Talk.

What we have here with Sexistential are nine exhilarating dance bangers, at times very playfully constructed, laser-focused to move body and mind — citing the more recent influence of vaporwave with a new spin on 'Blow My Mind' (revamped in tribute to her three-year-old son) and splintering song-forms with almost Trevor Horn-like opener 'Really Real'. Previewed with a listening party last night at Tāmaki's Public Bar, today is a happy one for Robyn fans indeed. Tuck into Robyn's first new album in eight years, nab a physical copy at good record stores / online, and expect to hear these anthems at parties everywhere...

"Exploring my sensual life is the same feeling as when I make a good song. 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."

'Sexistential' is out today via Young.