Madonna has shared more details about her upcoming album Confessions II announcing the release date, cover art work, and the different editions of the new record.
Fans got excited after the singer erased her Instagram posts, and uploaded a provocative image to her website. Now that’s been updated to again to share more information about the new record.
The album will be available as a standard CD with 12 tracks, but a deluxe edition will also be available featuring 16 tracks. For super-fans there’s also a premium deluxe edition with a photobook from the album’s photo shoot.
The new collections of songs will also be available as a 16 track cassette, vinyl picture disc and a single and double LP formats. The album can be ordered now and will ship on 3 July.
Madonna also shared on social media clips of posters being put up around the world to promote the album, while her Tik Tok post includes a musical clip that includes the singer delivering a spoken word introduction.
“Thanks for coming. Sometimes I just like to hide in the shadows, create a new persona, a different identity. I can be whoever I want to be, create a new persona, honestly i wish I could be like other people, and just not care. But out here, on the dance floor, I feel so free.” Madonna says over a dance beat.
The new record is described as a sequel to one of the singer’s most successful albums, Confessions on a Dance Floor. Arriving in 2005, it saw her work with producer Stuart Price, and the album was structured like a DJ set, with each track seamlessly flowing into the next. It included hits such as the ABBA-sampling Hung Up, Sorry, Get Together and Jump.
Last year, Madonna headed back into the studio and reunited with Price to make her fifteenth album. It’s the longest break fans have ever had between releases from the singer, with her last record, Madame X, arriving in 2019.
In a media release Madonna described the manifesto she and Price created for making the album.
We must dance, celebrate, and pray with our bodies. These are things that we’ve been doing for thousands of years — they really are spiritual practices. After all, the dance floor is a ritualistic space. It’s a place where you connect — with your wounds, with your fragility. To rave is an art. It’s about pushing your limits and connecting to a community of like-minded people.
Sound, light, and vibration
Reshape our perceptions
Pulling us into a trance-like state.
The repetition of the bass, we don’t just hear it but we feel it.
Altering our consciousness and dissolving ego and time.
The singer’s career has been marked by constant reinvention of her looks and sound, but she’s also played with the idea of different personas in the past from the character of Miss Dita on her Erotica album to her most recent offering of spy Madame X.
