Madonna - Confessions on a Dancefloor

The latest album by a woman who has been re-inventing herself regularly since the Eighties. Confessions on a Dancefloor he her return to clubland that she has not properly visited since Erotica and the track Deeper and Deeper. The whole album is full of dancer tracks. It kicks off with the stonking debut single Hung Up which samples Abba's Gimme Gimme Gimme. Next up is a real hip hop, technoesque track called Get Together (not the same track as on the Like a Prayer album). Third is a track called Sorry which reminds me a bit of any Seventies Studio 54-style disco number.

Future Lover is another soft techno track which would not have been out of place on any Hed Kandi or Ministry of Sound type compilation but was not particularly inspiring like Sorry and Hung Up which were more instantly grabable. Next was a track called I Love New York which was quite unusual, but I think it is a grower, with a catchy hook. Let it Will Be was an OK track, but a bit of a filler, but still fitting in with Madonna's latest disco diva incarnation. Forbidden Love is a more grabable track but not as strong as some of the others mentioned.

Jump is like the best of Hed Kandi and I had to check Stonebridge wasn't involved in any way. Amusingly (perhaps only to me) Jump is followed by a tack called How High. The intro sounds like when the game of Bejeweled starts up but it does not really pick up from there but stays in the disco background music genre. Isaac appears to have been influenced by Asian mysticism with some Indian chanting in the background. Bangra Knights it was not. Push is a better song and much more worthy of Madonna, a bit more funkier but nothing too risky. The final track Like it Or Not was more back to familiar Madonna territory and is a good track to end the album on.

Verdict: Some good tracks, some not so good, but all in all I think most will grow on me in a few plays.