Confessions II – The Reviews
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This Thursday morning, the first album reviews start appearing online, starting with articles from the British press, that embraces Confessions II with enthusiasm. We’re collecting them here as they surface.
The Guardian: Madonna: Confessions II review – nostalgic dancefloor trip sparks her most vital album in two decades.
Alexis Petridis’s Album of the Week, 4 stars out of 5
- After years spent chasing trends like trap and Latin pop, Madonna settles back nicely into old-school dance music to tell vivid vignettes of life in 80s New York
NME: Madonna – ‘Confessions II’ review: Queen Of Pop digs deep on thrilling return to the dancefloor
Review by Nick Levine, 4 stars out of 5
- On her most vital album in over two decades, pop music’s grande dame proves she still knows how to make us move
MOJO: Madonna Confessions II Reviewed: A magnificent return to the dance floor
Review by Lucy O’Brien, 4 stars out of 5
- After a long and anxious seven-year wait, Madonna finally plugs back into her clubland roots with a record of shamanic force
Classic POP: Madonna – Confessions II album review
Review by John Earls, 4,5 stars out of 5
- The Confessions On A Dance Floor sequel is the “Godfather II of follow-up records”
The Telegraph: Madonna throws a sweaty dance party to reclaim her crown
Review by Neil McCormick, 4 stars out of 5
- A sequel to her biggest album of this century, Confessions II pairs euphoric club highs with unexpectedly intimate late-career reflections
The Independent: Madonna’s Confessions II is her best album in 20 years
Review by Roisin O’Connor, 4 stars out of 5
- A celebration of the dance floor that incorporates tributes to her earliest days on New York’s club scene, the queen of pop’s new music is engineered to make you move, or indeed, sweat
The Times: Madonna: Confessions II review — is this her most personal album yet?
Review by Will Hodgkinson, 4 stars out of 5
- The Queen of Pop’s new album goes to the heart of who she is, with songs about her New York beginnings, her stepmother and a sweet duet with her daughter Lourdes
The Sun: Madonna lets rip at A-list ex, stepmum who ‘enslaved’ her & admits she failed daughter Lourdes on stunning new album
Review by Howell Davies, 5 stars out of 5
- As Madonna bares it all in Confessions Il from regrets over her late brother to her relationship with Lourdes, we give you a full rundown of each track on the new album
The Mirror: Madonna slams A-list ex and reveals strained relationship with daughter in candid album
Review by Tom Bryant, 5 stars out of 5
- Editor Tom Bryant has the first review of the new Madonna album Confessions II as the singer lets rip on a number of subjects in her most revealing album for years
The Irish Times: Madonna: Confessions II review – The star’s most confident record for years
Review by Ed Power, 5 stars out of 5
- Confessions II boldly reasserts Madonna’s belief that the dance floor is where you go to forget yourself and discover who you really are
The Financial Times: Madonna is back on the dancefloor with newfound purpose in Confessions II
Review by Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, 4 stars out of 5
- Featuring Sabrina Carpenter and daughter Lourdes Leon, the album is blended like a DJ set but shifts towards the personal
TheiPaper: Madonna still refuses to age gracefully – thank god
Review by Emily Bootle (unrated)
- On her new album, Confessions II, the singer pays tribute to the freedom of the dancefloor and, as always, luxuriates in her sexuality
The Daily Star: Madonna still sees late brother Chris and sings about pain of losing him on ace new album
Review by James Cabooter (unrated)
Madonna sings “when I’m alone I see you standing there” about her late brother Chris in moving new song, Fragile and believes “energy never dies” – the first review of Confessions II
BBC News: Madonna Confessions II review: A hypnotic dancefloor odyssey
Review by Mark Savage (unrated)
- Madonna started the record craving anonymity but by the end she’s lifted that purple veil. This is the closest we’ve come to hearing the real Madonna since Ray of Light, almost 30 years ago.
