Generational pop icon Robyn has released her new single ‘Blow My Mind,’ the fourth song from her hotly-anticipated album Sexistential. Produced by Klas Åhlund, it’s a tricked-out redux of “Blow My Mind” from Robyn’s 2002 Don’t Stop The Music album, rewritten in tribute to her three year old son. “‘Blow My Mind’ is the one song on the album about my son.” she says. “I was in that early stage when I was with him all the time, and something about that closeness opened the song up to me again. Listening back to the original I thought, ‘I think it’s one of the best songs I ever recorded, and I’m just gonna do it again.’ I rewrote the lyrics and I love this version’s rawness. It’s not cute, because it’s not cute with children. They’re cute, but the experience isn’t. It’s very punk.”
Robyn – ‘Blow My Mind’ (Lyric Video)
Released on 27th March via Young, Sexistential is the most ecstatic record that Robyn has 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 cover features with The Face and The Cut (where she fielded questions from the likes of Carly Rae Jepsen, Esther Perel, Charli xcx, Troye Sivan and more).
Sexistential will be released on LP, Deluxe LP, CD, limited cassette and digitally, including magenta, white and alternate art LP formats across various retailers. All are available to pre-order now. PRE-ORDER SEXISTENTIAL HERE
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 in truly unique ways.
Robyn
Sexistential
Tracklisting
- Really Real
- Dopamine
- Blow My Mind
- Sucker For Love
- It Don’t Mean A Thing
- Talk To Me
- Sexistential
- Light Up
- into The Sun
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