The Confessions II first listen thread

[funky]

I am just so unbelievably impressed by the production. Her best in a very, very long time.

 

[Jark]

Betrayal is the least necessary track so far but still works perfectly in context. I can't believe there are still two tracks left. This is lovely.

girl we both know that some time when you're feeling FRENCH levels of melancholy at 5am you'll have a spiritual epiphany to these SULTRY HORNS!

 

[OutSynk]

Betrayal is the least necessary track so far but still works perfectly in context. I can't believe there are still two tracks left. This is lovely.

FUCK YOU.

 

[win_the_game]

Betrayal has the best Erik Satie interpolation since Janft's Someone to Call My Lover.

 

[funky]

Betrayal - 9

This is going to hit so differently at certain moments.

 

[Penelope]

I'm going to be streaming this album intermittently for the rest of my life. I love you Madonna.

 

[straightorbroken]

One Step Away is so decadent. Absolute(ly) exquisite studio clatter to cushion Madonna's gentle torchy treacle. Lush.

 

[funky]

THE BOLDNESS to make these instrumental choices on ALBUM SIXTEEN.

 

[straightorbroken]

Asking myself what music even sounded like before this brand new swooshy edit of Bring Your Love. It positively basks in 90s dance brilliance.

 

[GNL]

Little Star mentioned!!!

 

[Penelope]

Lola sounds so gorgeous on this.

 

[straightorbroken]

BRING IT SABRINA.

Bring the life support machine.

 

[funky]

The Test is a hell of a comedown after that run, but it's perfectly nice.

I actually think Lordes has a lovely voice.

 

[win_the_game]

The Test is stunningly gorgeous

 

[GNL]

"Sometimes I wish that you would go away" omg Marge that's your daughter.

 

[Jark]

love the lyrical back and forth with Lourdes on The Test. she has a fantastique voice. the vocal blending on the chorus is great.

 

[Penelope]

The Test is a hell of a comedown after that run, but it's perfectly nice.

I actually think Lordes has a lovely voice.

It was so clearly important for her, and after that run she is absolutely allowed.

 

[Penelope]

The new and more layered Girl... So Confusing

 

[funky]

The Test at the moment doesn't feel like it belongs on this album, but at least she had the good sense to put it after the downtempo run rather than in the middle of the house run.

I think this might grow when I can listen to it out of context.

The Test - 7.5

 

[GNL]

Dare I say that this bit of the album is a bit meandering and boring. Don't be a buzzkill indeed.

 

[Penelope]

Oh my god at how SIXTIES and laidback - and WISTFUL - L.E.S. Girl is. I'm misting up.

 

[Penelope]

Dare I say that the second half of the album is a bit meandering and boring. Don't be a buzzkill indeed.

CUNT!

 

[Jark]

the last three tracks are really giving the after-dessert mint chocolate treat to the rest of the album's five-course banquet. LES Girl sounds like the sun coming out.

 

[OutSynk]

Dare I say th

No.

 

[Penelope]

LES Girl sounds like the sun coming out.

Perfect description.

 

[funky]

Dare I say that this bit of the album is a bit meandering and boring. Don't be a buzzkill indeed.

Please all take note that it wasn't ME in the end! @GNL is the TRUE VILLAIN!

 

[straightorbroken]

The sheer brilliance of Danceteria is augmented by too many things to mention whilst I take this all in. Madonna be funkin' her Rapture roots, it's excluding no-one and yet feels like the coolest thing she's done in years. The effortless abandon. I'm in a trance.

 

[straightorbroken]

Fuck me the rave bit is giving me a rash! I'll never function again.

 

[funky]

LES Girl sounds suitably française

 

[straightorbroken]

An outer body climax.

 

[Jark]

Perfect description.

so good that I feel I could have a whole album of this vibe! and yet it works precisely because we don't! she just really really gets it.

 

[funky]

It ends with a 7 but again, with upside.

Well that absolutely FLEW by.

 

[GNL]

I will not be a total hater and say that L.E.S Girl is a lovely, gentle note to close on, like Nico's 'These Days'.

 

[Penelope]

Perfect album. Don't even know where to begin.

 

[Sardonicus]

A truly EXHILARATING listen. Didn't think I'd be saying this about a new Marge album again, but hey - never count the QUEEN OF POP out. Your faves could never, etc.

 

[FannyFaudrey]

L.E.S. Girl is a bit like ending Music with Gone, but it's so much better!

 

[Penelope]

I took the earphones out and can only sit in silence after L.E.S. Girl (Artiste). Jesus fucking christ.

 

[straightorbroken]

Oh my god she's singing fuller on Everything. Madonna be robbin' Robyn. Sweet jesus this is a berserk blast of Madonna madness.

 

[Penelope]

It really does feel like the perfect culmination of her work. Where can she even go from here but die?

 

[Jark]

L.E.S. Girl is a bit like ending Music with Gone, but it's so much better!

my thoughts too.