Pop's party girl will get you dancing again! ADRIAN THRILLS reviews KYLIE: Tension II By Adrian Thrills Published: 20:57 EDT, 17 October 2024 | Updated: 21:01 EDT, 17 October 2024 e-mail View comments KYLIE: Tension II (BMG) Verdict: Timeless and charismatic Rating: CHARLI XCX: Brat And It's Completely Different But Also Still Brat (Atlantic) Verdict: Brat summer lives on Rating: She moved one step ahead of the game six years ago when she foreshadowed this year's country craze with 2018's Golden, an album she described as ' Dolly Parton on the dance floor'. Since then, however, Kylie Minogue has gone back to what she does best — high-octane disco music. At 56, she's showing no sign of slowing down.
This year, she has closed the show at the BRITs (where she won the Global Icon award), rounded off a Las Vegas residency, headlined British Summer Time in London's Hyde Park and recorded duets with Sia, Orville Peck, The Blessed Madonna and Bebe Rexha and Tove Lo. Next spring, she's back on the road with her biggest arena tour in more than a decade; and today sees the release of a new album, Tension II. A companion piece to last year's Tension, it takes her even deeper into the sounds of clubland.
As she sings on Lights Camera Action: 'This place is the space where I let it go.' Her renewed appetite for dance music can be traced back to 2020's Disco, an album recorded in lockdown (with Kylie producing her own vocals) and inspired by the nostalgic attitude of Dua Lipa and Sophie E.