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Confessions II

Madonna

Confessions II

Fifteenth studio album and first in seven years from the singer is a sequel to Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005)

ADM rating[?]

7.3

Label
Warner Records
UK Release date
03/07/2026
US Release date
03/07/2026
  1. 8.1 |   Pitchfork

    NEW Madonna’s back in peak form with a fresh and honest dance record that’s not only her best in 20 years, but a genuinely vital addition to her canon
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  2. 8.0 |   Clash

    NEW A punchy ode to the dancefloor, it’s yet another groundbreaking moment in one of pop’s defining careers
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  3. 8.0 |   Rolling Stone

    NEW On Confessions II, pop's queen of queens shows how dramatic and ecstatic a dance floor can be
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  4. 8.0 |   The Independent

    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
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  5. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    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
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  6. 8.0 |   NME

    On her most vital album in over two decades, pop music’s grande dame proves she still knows how to make us move
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  7. 8.0 |   Mojo

    NEW Filtering the intervening years, experiences, emotions, and life lessons through the sounds that made her – Chicago house, Detroit techno, and beyond – it’s also a timely reminder of why Madonna was crowned the Queen Of Pop in the first place, and continues to be a vital musical force
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  8. 6.7 |   Consequence Of Sound

    NEW Madonna spends too much time describing transcendence instead of actually delivering it
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  9. 6.0 |   Far Out

    NEW While the vignettes of influence feel like a blazing return to 1990s glory, there’s something optimistic about it
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  10. 6.0 |   The Arts Desk

    NEW An unexpected aspect is the high quality slowies
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