Kylie Minogue Tension II review: A glorious victory lap

Kylie Minogue (Image: BMG)

Reinvention has long been a dominating currency in pop music. Nowadays, every new album cycle is dubbed an era, accompanied (usually) by a sharp aesthetic or musical pivot. It’s clever marketing, sure, but can also offer an opportunity for transformative growth – or a chance to leave a less successful experiment behind. Someone who knows about this better than most is Kylie Minogue.

Over the last 37 years, the 56-year-old has adopted numerous different musical guises, from teen pop princess (‘Locomotion’) and indie darling (‘Where the Wild Roses Grow’), to disco diva (‘Spinning Around’) and barn-dancing country singer (‘Dancing’). Some, like 1997’s Impossible Princess and 2018’s Golden albums, were markedly more drastic shifts, whereas others, such as 2007’s X and 2014’s Kiss Me Once, were far tamer.

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