Madonna released her fifteenth album on Friday, "Confessions II", with many critics calling the 16 tracks of feel-good club vibes and classic dance music sounds her best release in decades.
The Queen of Pop, 67, has reunited with British producer Stuart Price, whom she worked with for "Confessions on a Dance Floor" in 2005 which was a global success driven by the hits "Sorry" and "Hung Up".
Many music critics from Rolling Stone, Variety to The Guardian newspaper agreed that the Confessions follow-up was her best work since then, following the lacklustre response from fans for her most recent releases "Rebel Heart" or "Madame X".
Rolling Stone called the latest release a "64-minute nonstop groove that flows like a club-DJ set, each song fading into the next, drawing from all over the history of dance music".
The Guardian said that even though it was "not quite as good as Confessions on a Dance Floor", it was unequivocally Madonna's best album since.
