Kylie Minogue’s ‘Golden’ album out April, “songwriting was therapy” after split

Kylie Minogue’s 14th studio album Golden is set for release in Australia and New Zealand on April 6 through Mushroom Group label Liberator Music in Australia and New Zealand.

The record – recorded mostly in Nashville – is out through the world on the same day through BMG.

Lead off single ‘Dancing’ is already out, and available on all major streaming services.

Minogue says: “You’ve got the lyrical edge, that country feel, mixed with some sampling of the voice and electronic elements, so it does what it says on the label.

“And I love that it’s called ’Dancing’, it’s immediately accessible and seemingly so obvious, but there’s depth within the song.”

Golden seems a confessional record, coming after the 49-year-old’s split last February from British actor fiancé Joshua Sasse.

They’d been together for three years after meeting on the set of his show, Galavant, where the singer had a guest role.

She’d expressed that he was “the real one”, until she apparently discovered he was cheating on her with Spanish actress Marta Milans, and threw him out of her West London home.

“I was quite fragile when I started work on it,” Minogue told BBC Radio, adding that writing – she co-wrote all the songs – “was therapy.”

She explained, “Being able to express myself in the studio made quick work of regaining my sense of self – writing about various aspects of my life, the highs and lows, with a real sense of knowing and of truth.”

In Nashville, Minogue worked with two British songwriters who had homes in that city.

Steve McEwan’s credits include huge country hits for Keith Urban, Kenny Chesney and Carrie Underwood.

British singer songwriter Amy Wadge’s best known for her collaborations with Ed Sheeran, including Grammy song of the year ‘Thinking Out Loud’ and ‘Gallway Girl’.

Golden was mainly created with African-German producer Sky Adams and a list of contributors including Jesse Frasure, Eg White, Jon Green, Biff Stannard, Samuel Dixon, Danny Shah and Lindsay Rimes.

There’s a duet with English singer Jack Savoretti on ’Music’s Too Sad Without You’ which ended on the Conor McDermottroe film Halal Daddy.

Golden tracklist:

Dancing
Stop Me From Falling
Golden
A Lifetime To Repair
Sincerely Yours
One Last Kiss
Live A Little
Shelby 68
Radio On
L.O.V.E
Raining Glitter
Music’s Too Sad Without You (feat. Jack Savoretti)