This year marks 30 years since the release of Madonna’s first single, the sexy, nearly ten minute long ode to disco ‘Everybody’. Since then she’s dabbled with varying degrees of success in rock, hip-hop and power balladry, but her musical strength has always been songs to make you dance.

She’s assembled the usual crack team of collaborators for MDNA, including the occasionally wonderful Martin Solveig, but what makes this album interesting is the return of William Orbit, the British producer who helmed her 1998 masterpiece Ray of Light and who leaves his distinctive, hypnotic sound all over the album’s second half. These songs alone are worth the purchase, and are happy proof that even the fourth best selling recording artist of all time still cares.

Kate O’Mara is from Readings Carlton