Confessions (Louise album)

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Confessions
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Studio album by
Released23 May 2025
Genre
Length29:48
Label Lil Lou
Producer
Louise chronology
Greatest Hits
(2023)
Confessions
(2025)
Singles from Confessions
  1. "Confession"
    Released: 13 February 2025
  2. "Borderline"
    Released: 10 April 2025
  3. "Only Dancer"
    Released: 1 August 2025

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.

Contents

Background and composition

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

Standard edition [16]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Confession"Shave3:21
2."Borderline"Jean-Marie2:40
3."Manifesting"
  • Redknapp
  • Shave
  • Jones
Shave2:57
4."It Ain't Love"
  • Poole
  • Pete Hammerton
  • Will Simms
  • Nonô
  • Hammerton
  • Simms
2:26
5."Only Dancer"
Parx3:34
6."Follow Me"
  • Cramp
  • Leah Jack
  • Theodoulos Doukanaris
Parx2:49
7."Get Into It"
  • Redknapp
  • Shave
  • Jones
  • Emily Phillips
  • Sam Harper
Shave3:02
8."Love Me More"
Shave2:52
9."Don't Kill My Vibe"
  • Redknapp
  • Shave
  • Jones
Shave3:33
10."Just Like That"
Shave2:34
Total length:29:48
Deluxe edition
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
11."L.U.V"
Whiting2:53
12."Diamonds"
  • Redknapp
  • Shave
  • Phillips
  • Harper
Shave2:22
Total length:35:03
Super deluxe edition [17]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
12."Release"
Whiting2:34
13."Crush"
  • Redknapp
  • Whiting
  • Phillips
  • Shave
  • Harper
  • Whiting
  • Shave
2:47
14."Diamonds"
  • Redknapp
  • Shave
  • Phillips
  • Harper
Shave2:22
Total length:40:24

Notes

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes. [16]

Charts

Chart performance for Confessions
Chart (2025)Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [24] 167
Scottish Albums (OCC) [25] 7
UK Albums (OCC) [26] 8
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [27] 4

References

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  4. "Louise on taking nothing for granted". The Herald Magazine . 31 May 2025. p. 43. Retrieved 1 June 2025.
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  13. "Confessions - Louise". Official Charts. 30 May 2025. Retrieved 15 June 2025.
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