Madonna - Love Spent

Yesterday we went and listened to the new Madonna album, MDNA, at a special playback session. It was all very fancy and we got given lots of free booze, cheese-sticks and posh salad - oh, and amazing MDNA notebooks to write our musical musings down in.

Love Spent is one of the William Orbit produced tracks off the album, and as this one minute teaser clip shows, it's a bit of alright! Boasting a classic Madonna chorus and some trippy interwoven acoustic guitar/synth bits, it's exactly the kind of thing we wanted when we first heard Orbit and Madge were getting together to cook up some tunes again.

Madonna - Masterpiece

After the initial shock of 'Oooh, she's done a Nicola Roberts!' that greeted Madonna's Give Me All Your Love, the general consensus seemed to settle on the fact that it was a rather good little tune, and a refreshing return to form for Madonna - a harking back to her fun, carefree 80s pop days.

If anything though, new track Masterpiece is even more 'classic' Madonna in sound - taken from the soundtrack of her W.E. movie, it's a lush, William Orbit produced ballad that really feels like it could have been an offcut from her Ray of Light days.

Featuring one of the best Madonna vocal performances I've heard in a long time, it makes for a tantalising glimpse at how good her upcoming 12th studio album might be.

Masterpiece (Remastered By Planete Madonna) by PLANETE MADONNA