Robyn Announces New Album ‘Sexistential,’ Drops Two Singles Exploring Pleasure, IVF, and Radical Honesty

Swedish artist Robyn has announced her new album “Sexistential, ” her first full-length release in seven years, alongside two lead singles, “Talk To Me” and the title track “Sexistential. ”

The album will be released on 27 March 2026 through her new label Young Recordings, also known simply as Young.

“Sexistential” is Robyn’s ninth studio album and follows 2018’s critically acclaimed “Honey, ” which cemented her status as a key figure in global pop and queer dance culture.

The new record contains nine tracks and has been described as “deeply playful” pop that echoes the sound and emotional immediacy of her earlier “Body Talk” trilogy.

Robyn says the album is designed to feel “like a spaceship coming through the atmosphere at a really high speed and crash landing, ” a metaphor she uses to describe returning to herself after years of personal exploration.

Speaking about the project, Robyn explains that exploring her sensual life is closely linked to her creative work, saying she experiences both as a “sensitive vibration” that takes effort to sustain.

She has said that the title “Sexistential” began as an in-joke before she realized it captured her belief that staying connected to pleasure and desire is a central purpose in her life, clarifying that this includes a broad sense of sensuality rather than only sex.

The album is co-produced primarily with long-time collaborator Klas Åhlund, continuing a partnership that has shaped much of her most influential work.

“Talk To Me, ” one of the new singles, is a dance-pop track produced by Klas Åhlund and Oscar Holter, with celebrated pop writer-producer Max Martin credited as a co-writer.

Robyn has said she wrote “Talk To Me” during the COVID-19 pandemic at a time when physical contact was heavily restricted, and she frames the song around the erotic charge of conversation, stating that she is turned on by people who like to talk.

The title track “Sexistential” pushes further into autobiographical territory, with Robyn describing it as a rap about having one-night stands while 10 weeks pregnant following IVF treatment.

She has linked the song’s concept to a public remark by musician Andre 3000, who suggested no one would want to hear him rap about his colonoscopy, with Robyn responding creatively by deciding there was value in rapping explicitly about IVF and pregnancy.

Robyn has characterized “Sexistential” as possibly the first rap song to center one-night stands during IVF pregnancy, foregrounding experiences of fertility treatment and embodied sexuality that are often underrepresented in mainstream pop narratives.

Alongside the two singles, the rollout includes a lyric video for “Sexistential” and a full music video for “Talk To Me, ” directed by visual artist and filmmaker Casper Sejersen.

Robyn is also scheduled to perform “Sexistential” on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, ” marking a high-profile U. S. television performance for the new material.

“Sexistential” will be available in multiple physical and digital formats, including LP, deluxe LP, CD, limited cassette, and standard digital release, with several colored vinyl and alternate-art editions offered through different retailers.

The announcement follows a period of renewed visibility for Robyn, including two sold-out shows at Brooklyn Paramount in New York.

She has recently appeared with David Byrne for the 50th anniversary celebration of “Saturday Night Live, ” and has joined Charli XCX and Yung Lean on a version of Charli XCX’s song “360” from the album “Brat, ” further underlining her ongoing influence across contemporary pop.

“Sexistential” arrives amid a wider wave of high-profile releases by women in pop in 2025 and 2026, with Robyn’s return positioned by some coverage as another landmark in a period that has also featured new projects from artists such as Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, and Chappell Roan.

For many LGBTQ+ listeners and club communities that have long embraced songs like “Dancing on My Own” as anthems of queer longing and resilience, Robyn’s decision to foreground IVF, pregnancy, pleasure, and honest talk about bodies reflects an ongoing shift toward more open conversations about family-making and sexuality.

Her emphasis on “staying horny” as a broader commitment to desire, curiosity, and joy aligns with frameworks used in queer and feminist discourse that frame pleasure and bodily autonomy as central to well-being and resistance to shame.

By situating fertility treatment, pregnancy, and casual intimacy within the same ecstatic pop space, “Sexistential” is poised to resonate with many LGBTQ+ people who navigate diverse paths to parenthood, relationships, and self-determination.

As pre-orders for the album open and the new singles circulate, Robyn’s latest era appears set to extend her long-standing relationship with queer dance floors and emotionally candid pop, while bringing new visibility to topics—like IVF and explicitly embodied desire—that are still relatively rare in chart-oriented music.