Tension is the upcoming sixteenth studio album by Australian singer Kylie Minogue. It will be released on 22 September 2023 by BMG Rights Management and Minogue's company, Darenote.

It was announced in May 2023, marking Minogue's first new body of work since her 2020 disco dance-pop album, Disco. "Padam Padam" serves as the lead single of the album, with Dutch DJ and electronic music producer Oliver Heldens' single with Minogue, "10 Out of 10" also appearing on the album.

Minogue's fifteenth studio album, Disco, released in November 2020, saw the singer return to a disco oriented sound after experimenting with country-pop in 2018's Golden.[3][4] In a 2021 BBC Radio 2 interview, Minogue teased the project, stating, "Perhaps it's going a bit more electropop. Don't quote me that [...] but that's what's on the boil at the minute."[5] In a June 2022 interview with Vogue, Minogue appeared to confirm this direction, citing her 2003 single "Slow" as a reference point for the new material.[6] The magazine also noted that recording sessions for the new album were scheduled to begin in July 2022.[6] In November 2022, Minogue told the Evening Standard that the sessions for the album had taken place in Melbourne, Brighton, London, Surrey, Croatia and Paris.[7] When talking about the upcoming album in May 2023, she stated that unlike her last two studio albums Golden and Disco, there is no theme, stating "I wanted to celebrate each song's individuality and to dive into that freedom."[8]

She enlisted the help of previous collaborators, Richard "Biff" Stannard and Duck Blackwell, to work on the album.

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