Album Review: Kylie Minogue - Disco

Kylie Minogue’s back with an album called Disco, which is everything the title suggests. Much like Fever and Light Years, this album finds Minogue and her collaborators spinning carefree synth pop vibes that bounce to throbbing disco house. Rather than letting lockdown get her down, Minogue learned how to record her vocals in isolation and work online with her collaborators. As we concentrate on surviving the great plague of 2020, those nights out on the town and dancing the night away that this album celebrates now feel like nothing but distant memories. Disco is for those of us not averse to doing the Loco-Motion in the living room and imagining they are bumping and grinding down at Studio 54. Refusing to let these difficult times become depressing, Minogue’s message of losing yourself in music, love and the good times is instantly uplifting.

Whether you discovered Kylie Minogue when you rifled through your parents' collection of music or can remember when the one time soap star fronted those hi-NRG Stock, Aitken & Waterman productions, Minogue effortlessly connects generations of disco dancers with this album. Magic works a charm as it innocently celebrates falling in love on the dancefloor without worrying about what may follow tomorrow. Electro disco arrangements are wrapped up in proper '70s disco strings, while horns feature across this album. Singing "dance through the darkness" on I Love It, Minogue delivers a simple message of hope on an album that provides non-stop dancefloor kicks.