New Kylie album due this year

Kylie Minogue in Sydney last year. Picture: Gregg Porteous Source: The Daily Telegraph

KYLIE Minogue fans can expect her first new album since signing with Jay-Z's Roc Nation to drop later this year.

The Australian pop princess is recording primarily in Los Angeles, already completing sessions with Pharrell and Stargate as well as American hitmaker Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins who has a string of smashes by female artists behind him.

Minogue said the new album would be "different". Several times.

"It's bringing out something different in me, which is cool," Minogue told Rolling Stone as she was given the Courage Award at a Women's Cancer Research Fund event in Beverly Hills.

"I need to know what it is to do something different, a different style of delivery, different beats, different subject matter.

"I think that I am a natural chameleon, so that floats my boat . . . I will maintain the DNA of what a Kylie track is, just because I'm on it. I like to try move the goalpost and experiment with different sounds.

"I can't tell you exactly what it is. I couldn't really describe it yet. But I can tell you I'm having a lot of fun in the process."

She said the album would be released this year.

"I'm hoping sooner rather than later. Is that vague enough?" she said.

Minogue also hinted that a tour would follow.

While she didn't perform at the event,. Minogue was due to make a speech about her own experience with breast cancer.

She said she found it more nerve-wracking to speak than perform.

"I don't like to talk too much about my experience because it's super personal, but I do speak about it because it's important and it's not something you can give sound bites on. It's a profound, life-changing experience, and there are so many emotional levels and stories within that story it's hard to wrap up how you feel about it in a few nifty minutes."
 

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