Sexistential

The beats are paradoxically harder and more restrained, and the arrangements are meticulously constructed, with arpeggiated electronics and her gorgeously multitracked vocals soaring over them.

Being a mother lends Robyn a new perspective on her usual studies of love and the dance floor. .... This is not to say that there aren’t great tracks on here that hit with all the hallmarks of a classic Robyn banger. There are many.

Returns to the Max Martin collaborative bangers that first turned the world onto Robyn. That pop brilliance runs through ‘Dopamine’, the driving beat of ‘Talk To Me’, and the rousing chorus of ‘Into The Sun’.

Sexistential is Robyn at her most lucid, practicing at liberation and assuredness now with this singular caveat of reinhabitation that doesn’t celebrate Robyn as a pop iconoclast with thirty years of consistent brilliance on the scoreboard – or doesn’t only; rather, she wields that in the creation of a self-mythology that also manages to sound brilliant on its own merit.

While there's arguably nothing here that will dethrone your favourite all-time Robyn tracks ("Call Your Girlfriend" forever wins the March Madness bracket, doesn't it?), a great many stand proudly amongst them — and for most fans, this is very much enough right now.