It’s been seven years since the release of Robyn’s last album Honey.
The Swedish pop legend returns with ‘Dopamine’ a new song with Daft Punk vocoder electronic pop vibes made with longtime collaborator Klas Åhlund, along with a music performance video made by Marili Andre.
It’s released on via new label Young, and is “a song that captures the rush of chemical euphoria that floods your body when you fall in love – that dizzying high when emotion and biology blur. It’s the sound of desire and doubt colliding: the feeling is real, yet you’re aware it’s a hormonal illusion. Sonically, the track mirrors that tension and intensity – intoxicating, pulsating, and euphoric, like coming up from the very high it evokes.”
“Everyone has a phone where they see their heart rate, and we’re learning how to decode our emotions through the hormones and chemical substances in our bodies,” she says. “It’s almost like we don’t even accept that we’re human anymore, like we’re trying to shoot ourselves out of it and explain every single thing – which I think is great, but that’s also why the world is shit, this idea that you can figure out and win life or something. The doubleness of Dopamine is having an emotion that is super real, super strong, intense, enjoyable or painful, and at the same time knowing that this is just a biological process in my body—and then not to choose religion or science. To just accept that they’re there together and to be able to go in between.”
Marili Andre also shot the ‘Dopamine’ cover artwork below.
Robyn’s recent appearances including Saturday Night Live’s fiftieth birthday, featuring on Jamie xx’s ‘Life’, performing with Yung Lean on a version of of Charli XCX’s ‘360’ and soundtracking Acne Studio’s 2025 Paris show.
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.
