But, although it's brilliantly mixed with a great new balance (amazing and juicily heavy basslines throughout I'd never noticed before), it's a very quiet pressing compared to other 2022 LPs in general. Kylie Minogue's Impossible Princess remains one of the most fascinating albums in the Australian pop queen's career.

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Gatefold sleeve with double sided insert, containing front cover image backed with lyrics and credits.Over the last few months he has disarmed packed rooms of rowdy concert goers, leaving them silent as they hold fast to every syllable sung. Minogue's trips with Sednaoui, her Deconstruction label mates, and clients of Sednaoui's work including Björk, Garbage, and Tricky inspired the album. Commercially, the album reached the top 10 in Australia, Scotland, and the United Kingdom; the British media, however, mocked its lack of success in Europe. In 1999, Minogue signed to Parlophone and released her studio album Light Years in 2000 to a positive reception.

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In the biography Kylie: Naked (2012), Nigel Goodall and Jenny Stanley-Clarke likened Minogue's vocals to those of Tori Amos, Björk, Sinéad O'Connor, Kate Bush and Madonna. Minogue's press campaign for the album began in mid-1995, including interviews with magazines and a performance at the Radio1 Roadshow in Newquay on 21August 1997. Their first offering was Minogue's self-titled album in late 1994, which peaked at number three in Australia and number four in the United Kingdom. Initially, she wanted to finish the tour in Melbourne on 4July, but because of high demand in England, Minogue hosted three additional concert performances there.On the 20th anniversary of the album, Ben Neutze of Daily Review opined that it stands as "the most intriguing chapter of her career, and the only significant glimpse at who this pop icon might be when stripped of other glorious facades.

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Hype sticker reads "Kylie Minogue Impossible Princess 25th anniversary special edition marble vinyl + art print BMGCAT586MLP". She wrote every track on the album—in contrast, she co-wrote only one song on her 1994 studio album. Minogue cited the incohesive material, her "IndieKylie" image portrayed by the media, as well as the long gap between albums, as the main reasons for the album's commercial failure; while Baker felt it was the lack of proper promotion and management on Deconstruction's end. In October 2022, 25 years after its original release, BMG released the album for the first time on vinyl. Additionally, she believed the book's poems summarised where she was at that point in her life under the spotlight.

Pete Hadfield, the label's director, was ill, leaving Minogue to take partial creative control over the project. Deconstruction cancelled plans to release Impossible Princess in North America following the sudden closure of her US distributor Imago Records in late 1994. Released on 28March 1998, the album had the original cover design; the 1997 copyright year; and Minogue's tribute to Sednaoui in the credits, despite having ended their relationship in late 1997.