Robyn‘s ninth studio album, Sexistentialism, will be released March 7 via Young, the Swedish icon announced Wednesday (Jan. 7).
Along with the news, the artist dropped the project’s second and third singles, the shimmering dance-pop anthem “Talk To Me” and “Sexistential,” which a press release on the album notes is “possibly the world’s first rap about having one-night stands while 10 weeks pregnant after IVF. Conceived as a riposte to Andre 3000 saying no one would want to hear him rap about his colonoscopy, Robyn – who would love to hear that rap – decided to put it all on the line.”
“Talk To Me,” meanwhile, finds Robyn reuniting with Max Martin for the first time since the duo co-wrote her 1997 classic “Show Me Love.”
Speaking to Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 about working with Martin on “Talk to Me,” Robyn said, “It was such a beautiful moment in the studio when he heard this idea I had for a chorus and some chords and then he was like, ‘Well, the chorus needs to go here, use this kind of chord structure here’ and, you know, he just left me with this beautiful little diamond. And it’s such a testament to his way of thinking about music and he knew exactly where he thought I was going to go with it.
“I wrote that chorus that evening after he left the studio really on his instructions,” she continued. “It was such a cool thing that we really collaborated. It wasn’t something I knew if we were going to be able to do since it had been such a long time since we’d worked together. He’s in this really curious and beautiful part of his life where he dips in and out of the studio and gives really good pointers.”
Sexisentialism is the first new studio album from Robyn since 2018’s Honey, with the album’s two new singles following the the project’s lead single, “Dopamine,” released in November. That track also got a remix by Jamie xx, the founder of the Young label.
Listen to “Talk To Me” and “Sexistential” below.
