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10.0
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NME
Questioning everything about love, life and sex, Robyn takes us on a joyride that’s both serious and silly
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10.0
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10.0 |
The Irish Times
The singer’s new album is less a celebration of sexuality than a meditation on her changing relationship with her physicality and sensuality
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10.0
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10.0 |
The Arts Desk
This is THE version of this sound, the one with sex and soul
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10.0
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10.0 |
Dork
A lesson in exactly what Robyn can do that nobody else quite can
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8.3
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8.3 |
Consequence Of Sound
The Swedish pop phenom's latest effort is strange, vibrant, and plenty of fun
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8.3
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8.3 |
Paste Magazine
The Swedish alt-pop star's ninth album harnesses her luminous synth-pop genius to dance to newfound questions of middle age, motherhood, and love
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8.0
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8.0 |
Northern Transmissions
Decades into her career, Robyn is still hellbent on the promise that love is everything — no matter what it does to your heart. Whether she sings about a one-night stand or endless devotion, she means every word
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Quietus
With just nine tightly constructed and sonically consistent songs, the record is a fleeting rush, but what keeps it from being slight is all the rich perspective and detail
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8.0
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8.0 |
musicOMH
The cherry on the cake on her first album in eight years is beats, riffs and production that don’t just usher you towards the dancefloor, they demand you meet them there
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Sexistential is Robyn at her most lucid
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Independent
The Swedish pop pioneer throws off her sad banger mantle in place of anthems about sex, IVF and single motherhood
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8.0
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8.0 |
All Music
Vibrant, unapologetic and expertly crafted, Sexistential may not be a stunning leap forward like Honey, but when Robyn sings "I'm still having fun," her joy is contagious
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8.0
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8.0 |
Far Out
Sexistential might seem like a return to Robyn’s signature sound and a departure from the intense electropop of Honey, it gloriously sits somewhere in the middle, with both emotional resonance and late-night euphoria bubbling to the surface
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8.0
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DIY
The essence of what has driven Robyn’s 30-plus year career
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Guardian
After 2018’s meditative Honey, the Swedish star returns to her trademark skin-tingling electro bangers – but this time she’s unpicking her trademark fixation on romantic love
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8.0
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8.0 |
Slant Magazine
The album makes the tricky business of maturing into middle age feel almost intergalactic
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8.0
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8.0 |
Rolling Stone
The dance-pop superstar proves she’s left all her GAFs behind on a deeply satisfying album about lust, motherhood, and hitting the club
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8.0
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Rolling Stone UK
While ageing might often come with fears of less, Robyn gives more in every department on her first album in eight years, flipping the script on both her own narrative, as well as those traditionally associated with pop stars her age
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8.0
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The Skinny
Robyn's back with her ninth album, doing what Robyn does best – blending euphoria and melancholy to make fun, endearingly cringeworthy, luxury pop music
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8.0
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8.0 |
Exclaim
In so clearly seeking to recapture a certain kind of early-millennial energy in its production and songwriting, Sexistential perhaps forfeits the potential to be its own thing in a way that Honey indisputably was
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7.9
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7.9 |
Pitchfork
Robyn sounds right at home on a kooky new album that refines the luminous synth palpitations of Body Talk to explore sexuality, sentimentality, and the creation of life
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7.8
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7.8 |
Spectrum Culture
Sexistential shows us a pop diva and new(ish) mother, feeling herself in a way that conveys liberation beyond the sexual kind that has always served as an undercurrent for her music
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7.5
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7.5 |
No Ripcord
Sees the Swedish megastar revisiting the sonic terrain of her 2010 classic, Body Talk, while simultaneously interweaving a more sexualised element
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7.0
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7.0 |
Clash
A slimmed down project that is over before you feel it really hits its stride, it exists in an uneven nether space that continues Robyn’s legend in some ways and takes some of the shine off it in others
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7.0
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7.0 |
Uncut
Fussy productions mires some of these songs, but there are a few that rank among her best. Print edition only
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7.0
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7.0 |
PopMatters
Sexistential embodies the contradiction in Robyn herself at this juncture in her career: she’s the blueprint, so she refers to herself as such
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