Robyn may be about to drop her first new album in seven years. Find all the details below.
The Swedish pop icon hasn’t released an album since 2018’s critically acclaimed ‘Honey‘. In the years since, she’s appeared on a few tracks with other artists, including ‘Call My Name’, a 2021 collaboration with the Swedish duo Smile, and a remix of Charli XCX’s ‘360’ with Yung Lean last year.
Now, it appears that she might be returning with an album. Speculation comes as her longtime collaborator, Klas Åhlund, appeared on producer Per Nordmark’s podcast Nordmark Pod last week.
Translated from Swedish by Stereogum, Åhlund said: “Just finished a new Robyn album that’s coming out. Super exciting! Very proud of it.”
‘Honey’ was awarded four stars from NME, in a review that noted: “From an artist who conjures up so many lofty titles – pop genius being one of them – this is a record that takes an altogether different tack to cut through to the raw, complex tangle of emotion.”
Speaking to NME at the time of its release, she explained the album’s title, saying: “I’ve been obsessed with this word for a long time, it’s such a weird substance, it’s both disgusting and amazing at the same time. That’s what self-love is, it’s not all good; it’s self-indulgent and also requires you to be deep and look at things that aren’t so comfortable.”
Two years later, Robyn was honoured as the Songwriter Of The Decade at the NME Awards.
Presented the award by Charli XCX and Héloïse Letissier of Christine And The Queens, Robyn went on to say: “I’ve prepared a long speech. I feel like I’m at the awards show at the Fifth Element, the [Luc Besson] film and I’m very flattered for the appreciation that NME has shown me over the years. But this is kind of a lifelong prize to be the Songwriter Of The Decade and I appreciate it so much.”
Talking to us in the winners’ room, Robyn said that she was planning to work on new songs that didn’t make it onto ‘Honey’.
“There are leftovers,” Robyn told us at the time. “Some of them I’m going to record this summer, I hope. Usually, I finish songs. If I start them, I finish them. The last album took eight years. I hope it won’t take that long next time.”
She continued: “What keeps me doing it is that I love the feeling of being inspired. If you’re not inspired, you don’t write good songs.”
This year, she’s made a few live appearances, starting off by teaming up with David Byrne for a rendition of ‘Dancing on My Own’ at Saturday Night Live’s 50th anniversary concert, and later with Gracie Abrams at Lollapalooza.
In March, she made a surprise appearance, joining Jamie xx on stage in Copenhagen for a live version of their track ‘Life’, which was released on his album ‘In Waves’ in 2024.
Before that, she popped up at London’s O2 Arena during Charli XCX’s show last November. Alongside Yung Lean, they played their version of ‘360’ from the ‘Brat’ remix album, followed by ‘Dancing On My Own’.
In other news, Robyn recently announced a 20th anniversary vinyl reissue of her breakthrough self-titled album.
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