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  • Summary: The latest full-length release from Australian pop artist Kylie Minogue features contributions from Oliver Heldens and Lostboy. The deluxe edition includes three additional tracks.
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  1. Positive: 16 out of 16
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  1. Sep 19, 2023
    100
    There’s enough originality pumped throughout each track that ‘Tension’ will undoubtedly stand as one of the most favoured contemporary Kylie eras. There’s no pretension to its greatness, just our Kylie, once again, humbly proving how easily she can forge gold and transform into pop culture phenomenon.
  2. Sep 21, 2023
    90
    Much like Disco, Tension is a master class in pop wizardry and escapist bliss. Releasing an album this expertly crafted and stunning in her fifth decade in the business is an absolute wonder to behold.
  3. Sep 25, 2023
    90
    It’s powerful, empowering, and, most importantly, fun.
  4. 80
    That’s what listening to Tension feels like: 100 per cent “Whheeeeeee!”
  5. Sep 22, 2023
    80
    Tension is Minogue’s 16th album, and certainly ranks among her best.
  6. Sep 22, 2023
    77
    Tension is strong proof that Kylie Minogue in 2023 is more than just “Padam Padam,” but it’s also a relatively uncomplicated message from the international superstar. It delivers what she does best: a campaign speech on behalf of pleasure and its pursuit, with an electro-pop shine that delivers dopamine hit after dopamine hit.
  7. Sep 19, 2023
    70
    Only Tension’s title track, with its digitally enhanced vocal hook, veers into territory that could be described as “experimental.” Which is to say, for better or worse, Tension is another Kylie Minogue album.

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