Kylie Minogue - Tension

Tension is the sixteenth studio album by Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue, released in September 2023 via BMG.

September 2023 marks the release of Kylie’s 16th studio album, Tension, a record of euphoric, empowered dance floor bangers and sultry pop cuts. Tension follows her previous studio album Disco, released in 2020.

Inspired to create a record that showcases each song's individualism without a core theme, Minogue enlisted the help of a variety of producers including long-time collaborators Richard "Biff" Stannard, Duck Blackwell, Jackson Foote, PhD, and Cutfather.

Influenced by electropop, Tension includes a wide range of electronic dance genres, ranging from 1980s synthpop, disco, and funk, to contemporary dance-pop and house notes.

Despite having no central theme, Tension explores subjects such as love, heartbreak, and empowerment.

Tension received critical acclaim from most music critics, who praised the album mixture of sounds, as well as its catchiness and production quality. Some publications considered it to be among Minogue's best work.

Commercially, Tension opened at number one in Australia, Belgium, Scotland, and the United Kingdom. Elsewhere, it reached the top-ten in France, Finland, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, and New Zealand.

Three singles have been released to promote the album: "10 Out of 10", "Padam Padam" (certified Gold single in Australia), and the title track “Tension”.

Kylie Minogue is Australia’s highest-selling female artist with 7 chart-topping albums and over 80 million albums sold worldwide. She has won 16 ARIA Awards across a career spanning 5 decades.

This album is on black vinyl housed in a single pocket sleeve with a printed inner sleeve and insert, pressed in France via BMG.