Bleep

Swedish alt pop royalty Robyn makes her debut on the Young label with a new LP entitled Sexistential. Somewhat of a turn away from the club-indebted hedonism of 2018’s Honey, Robyn instead embraces pure pop here, turning in a collection of brightly hued and ecstatic sermons on the intrinsic need for compassion and pleasure. Robyn weaves bits from soul, disco, and electronica in search of that ineffable feeling you get when the right song comes on at the right time in the right place. The title track’s flirty house shuffle harkens back a bit to the Honey era, but it’s the wide-eyed and vulnerable ‘Dopamine’ that stands among her many last-call classics.