Lykke Li

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  Lykke Li

  Internationally acclaimed artist Lykke Li has spent nearly two decades shaping a singular lane in pop: one defined by emotional extremity, melodic precision, and a fearless intimacy that has made her one of modern music’s most enduring voices. Since breaking out with her debut Youth Novels (2008) and achieving mainstream success with “I Follow Rivers,” Li has cemented her reputation across the critically beloved Wounded Rhymes (2011), I Never Learn (2014), So Sad So Sexy (2018), and the immersive audiovisual album EYEEYE (2022), continually returning to the fault line between love and heartbreak, destruction and creation. Her new album, THE AFTERPARTY, marks a bold reinvention. Writing from streetwise insight rather than romantic fantasy, Li stages a confrontation with mortality, hedonism, and impermanence—soundtracked by disco-glowing strings, gospel brightness, and Balearic warmth, even as the lyrics fixate on loss, futility, and the search for meaning. At just 24 minutes, the album is exacting and unsparing, what Li calls her “existential era”: a study of shame, survival, and joy held together by sheer will. Written in Los Angeles and recorded in Stockholm with a 17-piece string section, multiple drummers, and numerous singers, THE AFTERPARTY is both her most triumphant and most despondent work to date: a dance record for the end of the world, and a radical new grammar of honesty in pop.
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  Robyn

  Generational pop icon Robyn has released her ninth studio album, Sexistential on 27th March 2026 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 mainly with longtime collaborator Klas Åhlund, and featuring Max Martin among the writing credits (their first collaborations since 2010’s “Time Machine”), Sexistential heralds of the decade’s most celebrated comebacks. Featuring the singles “Dopamine”, “Talk To Me” and “Sexistential”, it’s 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.”