Confessions II – Even More Reviews

Photo: Rafael Pavarotti

We’re certainly not done with Confessions II in the press – and we likely won’t be for a while. Here’s a few more articles from the last couple of days – some are traditional reviews, others are reports, and some more are stories in an editorial style.

Pop Tingz: Madonna’s Confessions II; Back Where the Beat Belongs

Pop Tingz rating:8/10

• More than forty years into one of pop music’s most influential careers, it is remarkable that she can still produce an album this vibrant, this self-assured, and this invested in pushing herself forward. Confessions Part II may not surpass its legendary predecessor, but it comfortably stands as Madonna’s strongest work since.
  For an artist whose career has already rewritten the history books, that is an achievement in itself.

Crack Magazine: Confessions II: Madonna lets her guard down on the dancefloor

Words by Alim Kheraj

• Looking back has never come naturally to Madonna. On Confessions II, she does so without succumbing to nostalgia, delivering her most honest, cohesive and creatively liberated album in over 20 years.

Also on Crack: 7 artists, writers and Madonna collaborators on Confessions II

• Arca, IB Kamara, Michael Cragg and more share their first takes and experiences with CONFESSIONS II – Madonna’s long-awaited, triumphant return to the dancefloor.

Out Magazine: Why Madonna will always be Mother Superior for LGBTQ+ fans

Story by Jade Delgado

• As Madonna releases her 15th studio album, she’s still showing up for queer people like the family she’s always been.
  She’s still teaching us. She’s still mothering. And we’re lucky for that.

Dazed: Confessions II: 7 raw and vulnerable easter eggs on Madonna’s new album

• Text by Solomon PMFrom hashing out her relationship with her daughter to vividly recreating memories from partying with Basquiat in the early 80s, we unpick the autobiographical lyrics on today’s release

Clash: Madonna – Confessions II

Review by Robin Murray,  8/10

• A punchy ode to the dancefloor, it’s yet another groundbreaking moment in one of pop’s defining careers.

Vogue Adria: We listened to Confessions II, better knows as Madonna’s album of the decade

Story by Anja Stanković

• We celebrated the release of Madonna’s new album Confessions II last night at the official release event at MascomStore, before carrying the same energy onto the dance floor with Dita von Bill.

Huff Post UK: Critics Are Calling Madonna’s New Album Confessions II Her Best In 20 Years

Story by Daniel Welsh

• Early reviews for the Queen of Pop’s latest release are calling it “fantastic – and surprisingly profound”.

The Daily Mail: Madonna headed for huge comeback as new album ‘Confessions II’ becomes her most acclaimed release in decades

Article by Jacques Peterson

• The Material Girl’s fifteenth studio album Confessions II, which drops this Friday, is already shaping up to be her best-reviewed disc since 2005’s Confessions On a Dance Floor