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New Music 2026 Q1 W02

Robyn – Talk To Me

Robyn announces “Sexistential” (March 27 via Young), her first album in eight years, with two new singles that showcase exactly what we’ve been missing. “Talk To Me” is pure, euphoric pop about communication, trust, and physical connection. It’s the kind of track that makes you want to scream-shout lyrics in a dark corner at a gay bar.

Produced by longtime collaborator Klas Åhlund and Oscar Holter, “Talk To Me” marks Robyn’s first collaboration with Max Martin since 2010’s “Time Machine” from the Body Talk era. The production is a hypnotizing haze of happiness, building on that signature Robyn approach of emotionally complex narratives wrapped in danceable beats. She wrote it during the pandemic when physical connection wasn’t possible. “I like talkers, that turns me on,” she explains plainly.

The album’s title track “Sexistential” forms a harder counterpoint, featuring Robyn rapping about having one-night stands while 10 weeks pregnant after IVF. She describes it as possibly the world’s first rap about IVF, conceived as a response to André 3000’s claim that nobody would want to hear him rap about his colonoscopy. “It was my cue,” Robyn says. “I have to do this, I have to write a rap about IVF.” Over a cold club beat, she tackles motherhood and femininity with lines about hormonal rants on Instagram while breastfeeding.

What started as an inside joke became the perfect album title. “Exploring my sensual life is the same feeling as when I make a good song,” Robyn 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.”

“Sexistential” follows 2018’s critically acclaimed “Honey” and comes after a period where Robyn stayed busy with collaborations. She appeared on Jamie xx’s “In Waves” and Charli XCX’s “Brat”, keeping connected to contemporary pop while developing her own next chapter. The album was co-produced with Åhlund and should feel “like a spaceship coming through the atmosphere at a really high speed and crash landing,” according to Robyn. “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.”