Associate Editor Tom Bryant has the first review of the new Madonna album Confessions II as the singer lets rip on a number of subjects in her most revealing album for years ★★★★★

After years spent chasing trends like trap and Latin pop, Madonna settles back nicely into old-school dance music to tell vivid vignettes of life in 80s New York

A celebration of the dance floor that incorporates tributes to her earliest days on New York’s club scene, the queen of pop’s new music is engineered to make you move, or indeed,…