Kylie Minogue's upcoming album Kiss Me Once is on sale Friday. Listen to it all, right here.
BE one of the first to hear Kylie Minogue's new album above, as we give you our review of each track below. Then give us your verdict below. Which song do you like most?
INTO THE BLUE
FACT: If this was a Katy Perry song it would have already been No. 1 for weeks on end. Another fact: If it was Katy Perry it'd also be all over commercial radio. Instead our radio stations are desperate to interview Kylie but apparently she doesn't fit their demographic anymore so they're not playing this wildly radio-friendly pop triumph. Which is a nice way of saying she's not 24. Whatever. Lyrically it explores the hot topic of female self-empowerment, without slumming it to say "I went from zero to my own hero." Into the Blue fits very nicely indeed into Kylie's arsenal of euphoric pop, like All the Lovers, but has a nice bittersweet vibe just under the surface.
Best bit: the hands-in-the-air chorus where Kylie adds about sixteen syllables to the word "blue".
Kylie Minogue .. is back with another album. Picture: Gregg Porteous Source: News Corp Australia
MILLION MILES
GUITARS! On a Kylie song! Welcome back. Danish hitmaker Cutfather was one of the noggins behind this tune. It's a clever mix of the indie Kylie phase of Some Kind of Bliss with beats straight out of club Kylie.
Best bit: the verse after the two minute where everything goes underwater and Kylie dusts off her patent sexy whisper. It has served her well in the past and delivers once again here.
I WAS GONNA CANCEL
AND hello Pharrell. Mr Williams gives Kylie a bespoke hit-in-waiting. Pleasingly it sounds like it was written for her, not just one he prepared earlier. Although it's got the sass of his work for Gwen Stefani, but with the Daft Punk elastic robodisco. And bells. Lots and lots of bells. And vocally we've rarely heard Kylie sound this raw — she said she was in tears minutes before recording it, the lyrics directly refer to Minogue wanting to ditch the session after having a bad day, but, like many before her, she just couldn't say no to Pharrell. This doesn't really sound like anything she's done before — which is something you can't always say about a new Kylie album.
Best bit: the fist-pump chorus that starts with Kylie telling herself "shut out all the doubt, just get up and go'' and ends with the chant 'go go go go go go girl."
Thanks to Pharrell Williams ... Australian artist Kylie Minogue has a new song on her album written by him. Picture: Ian Gavan/Getty Images Source: Getty Images
SEXY LOVE
WELCOME to Love at First Sight 2. This is a very good thing. Disco Kylie is her default setting and as comfort zones go, this one suits her perfectly. Funky bass, verses that sound like choruses and choruses that are even more ridiculously catchy. Close your eyes when you listen to it and you'll see a mirror ball. This needs to be mashed up with Love at First Sight when she tours Kiss Me Once.
Best bit: a minxy Minogue stating "You look so sexy in my head, you look so sexy in my bed."
SEXERCIZE
UM. Well, Sia wrote the lyrics. And someone else supplied the squelchy electro beats. Kylie fans will file this one under another blatantly saucy track in her sex CV Nu-Di-Ty. Sia's written some stunning, emotionally-charged, soul-searching ballads for some of the world's biggest female artists, but she gives Kylie a song called 'Sexercise'.
Best bit: well, hopefully someone talks Kylie into making a viral video for this song where she painstakingly recreates Olivia Newton-John's Physical video.
Kylie and Sia ... making music together. Picture: Kylie Minogue/Instagram Source: Supplied
FEELS SO GOOD
IN the grand tradition of pop, this used to be a song called Indiana by Tom Aspaul. Someone in Team Kylie heard it, thought that'd make a great pop song if you put a pop star on it, and now it's a Kylie tune. And retitled Feels So Good. And in the grand tradition of Kylie gravitating to cool people, it's produced by MNEK, who produced Indiana (which you can find easily on You Tube for reference) as well as Duke Dumont's 100% and tunes for Rudimental.
Best bit: those dream-state synths that make for a gorgeous, subtle feel. It's like a regular Kylie pop song on Xanax.
IF ONLY
ANOTHER hip producer, Ariel Rechtshaid, is behind this one. He's worked with Sky Ferreira, Haim, Solange and Major Lazer. If Only has an epic feel, with huge tribal drums and sweeping synths and digital handclaps, but it also has a nice sense of restraint. Again, this isn't your usual Kylie song and that's a nice development on album No. 12.
Best bit: Kylie's vocal range, from falsetto to whisper throughout, including the line "If I set you free and you actually came back to me …"
LES SEX
WE'VE had MNEK already, here's MNDR. MNDR, or Amanda Warner, wrote this with US/Finnish production team Good Will & MGI steering the interesting tune, which has verses that sound a bit like a musical mobile hanging above a baby's cot, then a driving chorus that throws cut-up electro through the speakers. There's a lot of sex on this record.
Best bit: hearing Kylie sing the lyric "take two of these and meet me in the shadows, if love's a drug we're higher than stilettos."
Kylie Minogue ... singing at an impromptu gig at The Beresford Hotel in Sydney. Picture: Nic Gibson Source: DailyTelegraph
KISS ME ONCE
ANOTHER Sia tune — she was executive producer on the whole record. One day she and Kylie and Greg Kurstin will get together and write a whole album together. Until then Kiss Me Once is that welcome thing in the world of Kylie — a genuine grower. Minogue said this song almost missed the record, then was upgraded to title track. It's got that kind of latent charm, it doesn't try and instantly seize your memory banks (usually Kylie's musical MO) but once that chorus grabs you it won't let you go. It's nice hearing a reflective Kylie song that isn't dull, this is what you call age-appropriate pop.
Best bit: More bells!
The cover ... for Kylie Minogue's new album titled Kiss Me Once. Picture: Kylie Minogue/Instagram Source: Supplied
BEAUTIFUL
HMM. Who thought Kylie should do a duet with Enrique Iglesias? And that it should be a ballad. And that it should be the album's next single? The team behind Enrique's Hero and Cher's Believe try and merge the two songs. It's got Believe's creepy vocoder all over it, and the simplicity of Hero, but the inconvenient truth is that there's no real hooks on this song. It is pleasant enough, but Kylie hasn't released a proper ballad as a single for well over two decades and this isn't the right song to change that. This is the one time we would approve of remixer Cedric Gervais clubbing it to death for radio.
Best bit: the brief moment around 2.40 when it gets something resembling a pulse. It doesn't last.
Back in Australia ... one of Kylie Minogue's many selfies. Picture: Kylie Minogue/Twitter Source: Supplied
FINE
THE only Kylie co-write here, she's back with songwriter pal Karen Poole. Fine's a nice warm and fuzzy way to end the record. But Into the Blue's b-side, Sparks, would have offered something a bit different to proceedings. Kylie fans can do what they always do — make up their own alternative album on their iTunes playlist. We'd suggest leaving bonus track Mr President off, just quietly.
Best bit: Kylie telling you "it's going to be OK, a brighter day will come, turn your face to the sun."
Kiss Me Once (Parlophone) is out on Friday.
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