Confessions (Louise album)
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| Released | 23 May 2025 | |||
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| Length | 29:48 | |||
| Label | Lil Lou | |||
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Confessions is the fifth studio album by English singer Louise. It was released on 23 May 2025 by Lil Lou Records. Its release is preceded by the singles "Confession", "Love Me More", and "Borderline".[1] Working with a variety of collaborators, the project includes contributions from Jon Shave, Anya Jones, Karen Poole, Tre Jean-Marie, MNEK, Miranda Cooper and Hannah Robinson.
Work on Confessions began over a year before release.[2] The deluxe edition's bonus tracks, "Diamonds" and "L.U.V", were some of the first written, and the former of the two cemented some of the writers and producers Redknapp would work with on the album.[3] According to the singer, "Confession" was the song that set the style and tone for the rest of the record.[4] The process of recording was guided by a desire to create modern music unrestricted by a need to appeal to radio stations.[5] Louise worked with, in her own words, "anyone who's made hit music in the last four or five years" to create Confessions, among them Jon Shave, MNEK, Wayne Hector, Anya Jones and others.[2] The final, mastered version was delivered to Redknapp around January 2025.[2]
Confessions is an album of dance-pop,[5] nu-disco and funk[6] music where "synths, strings, and house-inspired beats" are prominent.[3]
Promotion
Singles
On 13 February 2025, Louise released "Confession", the album's lead single;[7] it debuted at number 75 on the UK Singles Downloads Chart, and at number 81 on the UK Singles Sales Chart, on 21 February 2025.[8] A promotional single, "Love Me More", was released on 21 March 2025.[9] It debuted and peaked at number 83 on the UK Singles Downloads Chart, and at number 88 on the UK Singles Sales Chart.[10] "Borderline" was released as the second single on 10 April 2025.[11] No official music videos were released by Louise to promote the album's singles. The album's third single, "Only Dancer", was released 1 August 2025.
Commercial performance
In the United Kingdom, Confessions was a commercial success. On 30 May 2025, the album debuted at number 8 selling 6,419 copies on the UK Albums Chart Top 100, becoming Louise's first album since 1997's Woman in Me, to reach the Top 10;[12] additionally, the album debuted at number 4 on the UK Albums Sales Chart, number 2 on the Albums Downloads Chart, number 8 on the Vinyl component chart, number 1 on the cassette Chart and number 4 on the Independent Albums Chart. Confessions went on to spend two weeks on the UK Albums Sales chart, and three weeks on the UK Albums Downloads chart.[13]
Reception
The album was received positively upon release. Bradley Stern of MuuMuse named it "an all-killer, no-skips affair" and even "one of the best pop albums of 2025".[14] Writing for The Yorkshire Times, Jeremy Williams-Chalmers called it a "well-written, well-produced and strikingly insightful pop rocket".[15]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Confession" |
| Shave | 3:21 |
| 2. | "Borderline" | Jean-Marie | 2:40 | |
| 3. | "Manifesting" |
| Shave | 2:57 |
| 4. | "It Ain't Love" |
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| 2:26 |
| 5. | "Only Dancer" |
| Parx | 3:34 |
| 6. | "Follow Me" |
| Parx | 2:49 |
| 7. | "Get Into It" |
| Shave | 3:02 |
| 8. | "Love Me More" |
| Shave | 2:52 |
| 9. | "Don't Kill My Vibe" |
| Shave | 3:33 |
| 10. | "Just Like That" |
| Shave | 2:34 |
| Total length: | 29:48 | |||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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| 11. | "L.U.V" |
| Whiting | 2:53 |
| 12. | "Diamonds" |
| Shave | 2:22 |
| Total length: | 35:03 | |||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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| 12. | "Release" |
| Whiting | 2:34 |
| 13. | "Crush" |
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| 2:47 |
| 14. | "Diamonds" |
| Shave | 2:22 |
| Total length: | 40:24 | |||
Notes
- "Get Into It" contains a sample of "Throb", performed by Janet Jackson.[18]
- During the week of release, multiple other editions of the album were released:
- A "deluxe instrumental" edition featuring instrumental versions of the standard 10 tracks sequenced right after the originals[19]
- An extended edition with extended mixes of the standard set of songs[20]
- A "deluxe acapella" edition featuring a capella versions of all 14 songs, including bonus tracks[21]
- A "deluxe continuous mix edition" with an 11th track, the full deluxe album made into one continuous mix.[22]
- An Amazon Music exclusive "audio commentary edition" with each of the 10 standard tracks preceded by short commentary from the singer.[23]
