KYLIE MINOGUE レコード& CD

Review: Body Language remains one of Kylie Minogue's finest records, in particular finding some truly inspirational crossover between the Aussie pop queen's immaculate voice and a more sultry kind of club music. When an album opens up with a track as perfect as 'Slow', you know you're in for a treat. There are of course many different sides to the record, and there's space for different stylistic approaches besides the floor fillers, but it's the likes of 'I Feel For You' with its cut-up disco loops that give Minogue the backing she deserves to bring the club to life. This edition of the album comes pressed on blood red vinyl, all the better to set pulses racing.

Review: Kylie released Tension in September and shot straight to number one, reminding everyone who the reigning pop queen of all time really is. Capitalising on the snappy production that electrifies tracks like the breakout viral hit 'Padam Padam', this double-vinyl release provides extended versions of the album which lets the tracks ring out for the run time they truly deserve. It also means all 11 tracks are now in a form better suited to drawn-out blends, which will no doubt satisfy the DJs amongst Kylie's considerable fan base. '10 out of 10' indeed.

Review: There has been a strong run of reissues of Kylie Minogue's albums in recent times, and it's a handy way to reflect on just how many lives Australia's pop queen has lived throughout her career. Here though, we're going all the way back to the start and the sugary pop perfection of her late 80s debut. While we now know there's so much more to her than 'I Should Be So Lucky', it's also tonnes of fun revisiting these unabashed feel-good hits and dismissing any guilty pleasure syndrome - this is the year of Barbie, after all. In keeping with the times, this is a neon pink vinyl edition too.

Review: If there's anything that can make a Kylie album more appealing, it's a lovely bright orange vinyl pressing, which is what this is. Minogue, of course, is Australia's premier cultural export many decades into her career. Tension is her first decent-sized body of new work since the 2020 disco, dance and pop album Disco and is her 16th long player overall. This one has a hint of electro-pop to it but it's still rooted in glossy, accessible, happy dance sounds that will be popular at weddings for decades to come. Dutch DJ and producer Oliver Heldens has linked with Kylie for one of the better tunes, '10 Out of 10' and it's a vibrant mix of euro dane from across the ages.

Review: When it comes to Christmas cheer in recorded form, no one does it better than a true pop diva. Mariah may wear the crown for some of her most iconic efforts, but who could ask for more than Kylie belting out a whole album's worth of seasonal classics? Australia's premier cultural export has the clout to call up some heavyweight collaborators, whether it's Frank Sinatra joining in on 'Santa Claus Is Coming To Town' or Iggy Pop joining in on 'Christmas Wrapping', but Minogue can carry most of these festive nuggets all on her own.

Review: Kylie Minogue's Impossible Princess remains one of the most fascinating albums in the Australian pop queen's career. It's absolutely a product of the 90s, when genres and technology were colliding faster than the business could set up the barriers, and so glorious crossovers were taking place. But more importantly, it's also Minogue's most personal album, where she took the front seat in the songwriting process, and even got her hands dirty on the production with Brothers In Rhythm. As such, it feels like a window into the real person behind the pop persona, and it sounds better than ever on this limited edition marbled vinyl version.

Review: When Kylie's Fever came out in 2001, it was world-conquering in a way that surpassed the dizzying heights Australia's biggest pop icon had ever scaled before. That's saying something, but more than 20 years later 'Can't Get You Out Of My Head' remains a monumental slice of earworm magic, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Tapping into that warm, disco-infected house wave that to be quite honest beats the likes of 'Get Lucky' to the punch, there is endless joy to be found in this pitch-perfect slice of millennial pop. The first pressings of this came around 2017 and are already worth a mint, so don't expect these ones to hang around for long either.

Review: Kylie keeps up her newfound 'Infinite Disco' brand with a special clear vinyl invitation to spacey joy. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the global pop megastar's Infinite Disco live performance was first broadcast online in 2020, accompanying her album 'DISCO', which showed off just what she could do with the style. Now, with the aid of the House Gospel Choir, Teemu Brunila, Sky Adams, and Maegan Cottone, she brings her take on the style further to life with live versions of all the hits from 'DISCO'.