Kylie Minogue – Disco (Deluxe Edition, Limited Edition, Blue Marbled Vinyl)

“A disco ball allows you to see light in the darkness,” Kylie Minogue says, neatly encapsulating why her 15th album DISCO is a welcome bright spot in a distinctly dingy year. “I’ve turned off the dirt road and onto the supersonic highway—straight to the galactic disco.” Indeed, DISCO is a marked departure from 2018’s country-tinged Golden, transporting its listeners straight to the kind of packed dance floor they could only dream of amid 2020’s global lockdown. And yet DISCO was recorded during isolation in a makeshift home studio made up of clothes rails, curtains, and blankets—all of which earned Minogue her first engineering credit (“I went to recording kindergarten and had to learn to use GarageBand,” she says). Minogue, of course, isn’t the only artist turning to disco as a radical form of escapism in 2020, a year that’s also seen Lady Gaga, Dua Lipa, Jessie Ware, and Róisín Murphy experiment with the genre. “At its inception, disco was a way of allowing people to dance through their struggle and pain,” says Minogue of why rolling back the years has proven such a tonic. “Some of the best disco songs are mission statements of strength. Even though I started recording before the dramas of 2020, there is a correlation.”