★★★★★
The Australian dance-pop diva recently signed a management deal with Jay Z's Roc Nation, and she's been working with crossover-friendly writers Pharrell and Sia. But if her 12th album sounds a lot like contemporary pop, that's probably just because a lot of contemporary pop bears resemblance to the effervescent club music that Minogue's been making since the Eighties...
- www.rollingstone.com
2014-03-25
★★★★★
Being Kylie. She makes it look all so effortless, having been on pop duty for 27 years and becoming a co-opted national treasure and that. She puts in the hours being fabulous and has knocked up a fine arsenal of magic tunes and cheeky, sexy photo shoots, acknowledging the needs of long-time admirers both straight and gay. Basically, she knows what she's doing, and she does it very well. But what exactly does one require from a Kylie album in 2014...
- www.clashmusic.com
2014-03-21
★★★★★
Available on: Parlophone Don't you love those "why did nobody think of it before?" moments? When you see something so simple and so obvious - like a paperclip, for example - that it feels somehow odd that it even had to be invented. Well, Kylie and her team (Sia Furler, Marcus Lomax, Jordan Johnson, Stefan Johnson, Clarence Coffee, Nella Tahrini, Kelly Sheehan and Alexander "Xplicit" Izquierdo) have done just that: they've invented GAY BROSTEP. And they've called it 'Sexercize'...
- www.factmag.com
2014-03-21
★★★★★
Twenty-seven years later, "The Loco-Motion" hit-maker, who some thought might easily be but a one-hit wonder, has survived both critical scrutiny and ever-evolving musical climates. It's not the voice, although its timbre is surely pleasant enough and she consistently sings well in a live setting, unlike many of her peers. It's not her larger than life persona, one that defies categorization and blindsides detractors with it's ingenuity...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-03-18
★★★★★
Kylie Minogue's first album in four years starts off with some electronically tweaked "oh, oh, ohs" that sound beamed in from a Jason DeRulo song. They send a clear message: Kiss Me Once is Minogue's gung-ho attempt to once again join the mass American pop market, which has proven resistant to her music's chrome-plated charms since "Can't Get You Out of My Head" la-la-laed its way to the Top 10 back in 2001...
- wonderingsound.com
2014-03-18
★★★★★
Global superstar Kylie Minogue has had a remarkably fluid music career. Since her time as a well-scrubbed '80s teen-pop star, she's graduated to glittery synthpop, sultry electro, and campy dance music, with the occasional curveballs (a Nick Cave duet, some Manic Street Preachers collabs, an orchestral record) to keep things interesting. Kiss Me Once , the singer's 12th studio album, also feels like a departure from past work...
- www.avclub.com
2014-03-18
★★★★★
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How overdue is Kylie Minogue for a new album of original material? Here's how overdue: Each of the Aussie popster's last four releases has included one version or another of the admittedly great "All the Lovers." That alone makes "Kiss Me Once" cause for celebration, even if it sounds like Minogue was still building up to full strength when the clock ran out. As is her habit, she starts out with her best foot forward, in this case the arms-up ecstasy of "Into the Blue...
- www.bostonglobe.com
2014-03-19
★★★★★
Producers Of The Moment, Ariel Rechtshaid and Pharrell Williams, on a Kylie album? Why not? After all, the brilliance of Team Minogue has always been to hop on passing musical trends while remaining true to the essence of Kylie. In 2014 that means warped vocal effects and a martial R&B; beat not a million miles away from Vampire Weekend's 'Modern Vampires Of The City' on 'If Only' and 'Get Lucky'-ish electro disco on 'I Was Gonna Cancel', which features Williams at the helm...
- www.nme.com
2014-03-17
★★★★★
To step onto a dance floor and not make a total ass of yourself, one has to be comfortable with a certain loss of control. Thinking gives way to moving. Logic is swept away by rhythm. Self-conscious thoughts evaporate. It can be an intimidating proposition, depending on your level of intoxication. Luckily, for those of us who think dancing in public is as scary as I just made it sound, there's a new Kylie Minogue album out this week, and it serves as an antidote...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2014-03-18
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