Robyn previewed new music at Zits Studios’ present at Paris Vogue Week – try clips under.
The Swedish pop icon hasn’t launched an album since 2018’s critically acclaimed ‘Honey‘, however hypothesis about her imminent return was fuelled final month when her longtime collaborator, Klas Åhlund, appeared on the Nordmark Pod and mentioned he had “simply completed a brand new Robyn album that’s popping out”.
On October 1, Zits Studios held its SS26 womenswear runway present at Collège des Bernardins in Paris. Jonny Johansson is the co-founder of the style home and a long-time buddy of Robyn’s, and he or she and Patrik Berger organized the rating for the present.
Among the many materials on the soundtrack was a revamped tackle ‘Robotboy’ that noticed her joined by Yung Lean. Talking about teaming up with him, Robyn instructed Dazed Digital he was ”a kindred spirit” and mentioned the track felt like “it was made for him” slightly than her.
Pertaining to creating collectively a soundtrack to the present, she continued: “There was an sudden dialogue between the music and the garments that I simply didn’t see coming”.
Whereas she was tight-lipped on particulars in regards to the new report, she instructed Dazed she had used “sounds and a few lyrics to construct a brand new collage which may be very private and actual”.
As famous by Stereogum, the fabric heard in clips posted by Zits aren’t all totally new, and included a reworked model of 2005’s ‘Ought to Have Recognized’, with new lyrics together with: “Fuck a app, I want me some IRL/ Fuck a single mother, I’m not judgmental/ Fuck a Plan B child, it’s no massive deal.”
Her final studio effort ‘Honey’ was awarded 4 stars from NME, in a assessment that famous: “From an artist who conjures up so many lofty titles – pop genius being one in all them – it is a report that takes an altogether completely different tack to chop by means of to the uncooked, advanced tangle of emotion.”
Chatting with NME on the time of its launch, she defined the album’s title, saying: “I’ve been obsessive about this phrase for a very long time, it’s such a bizarre substance, it’s each disgusting and superb on the similar time. That’s what self-love is, it’s not all good; it’s self-indulgent and in addition requires you to be deep and take a look at issues that aren’t so comfy.”
Two years later, Robyn was honoured because the Songwriter Of The Decade on the NME Awards.
Introduced the award by Charli XCX and Héloïse Letissier of Christine And The Queens, Robyn went on to say: “I’ve ready an extended speech. I really feel like I’m on the awards present on the Fifth Aspect, the [Luc Besson] movie and I’m very flattered for the appreciation that NME has proven me over time. However that is form of a lifelong prize to be the Songwriter Of The Decade and I recognize it a lot.”
Speaking to us within the winners room, Robyn mentioned that she was planning to work on new songs that didn’t make it onto ‘Honey’.
“There are leftovers,” Robyn instructed us on the time. “A few of them I’m going to report this summer time, I hope. Often, I end songs. If I begin them, I end them. The final album took eight years. I hope it gained’t take that lengthy subsequent time.”
Within the years for the reason that launch of ‘Honey’, she’s appeared on a couple of tracks with different artists, together with ‘Name My Title’, a 2021 collaboration with the Swedish duo Smile, and a remix of Charli XCX’s ‘360’ with Yung Lean final 12 months.
This 12 months, she’s made a couple of reside appearances, beginning off by teaming up with David Byrne for a rendition of ‘Dancing on My Personal’ at Saturday Evening Stay’s fiftieth anniversary live performance, and later with Gracie Abrams at Lollapalooza.
In March, she made a shock look, becoming a member of Jamie xx on stage in Copenhagen for a reside model of their observe ‘Life’, which was launched on his album ‘In Waves’ in 2024.
