Madonna - Confessions on a Dance Floor (WEA)

In a 1998 edition of DJ I referred to ‘Ray Of Light’ as “a great William Orbit album that just happens to have Madonna signing on it.” The same could almost be said of this new one, in which Stuart Price a/k/a Les Rhythmes Digitales packs a big, throbbing, non-stop punch disco while Madonna surfs the wave and interrupts the occasionally genius house with tales of New York city freaks and, ahem, domestic bliss in Wiltshire. Aside from the lead single ‘Hung Up’, the Chicane-esque ‘Get Together’ and the Mirwais reunion for a Moroder-sampling ‘Future Lovers’ are the main highlights.