Veronica Electronica [Ray Of Light remixes + 2 previously unreleased songs] (2025)

"Veronica stems from a vaguely contradictory concept in which she is both a girl dancing at a club and, somehow, “medieval” – and the album, which she intended to release after "Ray Of Light" but ended up shelving. For diehards, the promised record is something of a holy grail – never mind that this long-awaited release only contains 2 truly new songs, one of which, "Gone Gone Gone", has been floating around on the internet for years. Even so, it’s hard to deny the simple pleasures that can be derived from hearing some all-time great Madonna remixes cut down to radio length and sequenced like the original "Ray Of Light". "Drowned World/Substitute For Love" sounds great taken out of its original glacial trip-hop context and turned into a DayGlo acid rager by BT and Sasha; the emotional ambiguities of the original song are replaced with warm positivity, and you can easily imagine the song soundtracking the final minutes of a raging house party as the sun begins to rise." (The Guardian; 3 uit 5 sterren)