Pet Shop Boys - Release

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Free Music Review: The Boys are Back in Town!
Hit: 5 Stars

The album starts with the gorgeous 'Home and Dry' which is quite different to some of the work they have produced more recently but is a song with which you fall in love almost immediately. It is indeed quite beautiful. Although guitars are used on this album, and quite a lot has been made of this in the reviews I have read, it is instantly recognisable as a Pet Shop Boys album. Tennant and the "eternal boy" Lowe have produced another gem and have reinvented themselves once again. They are still the coolest duo in pop and so easily upstage the manufactured rubbish that seems to fill the charts these days. Thank God we can still rely on them to produce such quality material Indeed, track two on the album is an absolute "stormer", "I Get Along" (hopefully their next single). Another masterpiece of lyrical genius from Neil along with Chris's unbeatable keyboard and backing work and the guitars from the ex-Smith Johnny Marr. Sometimes it can be too easy to not concentrate on the lyrics of the boys' songs and to just hear the keyboards and the fabulous beat but it will be your loss in not doing so, as is the case with every song they have ever written which makes them the best band ever - in my humble opinion! Moving on through the album you have the excellent "Birthday Boy" which has Neil singing in the lowest voice he has ever sung and starts with a beautiful guitar introduction. "London" is also a truly fabulous song and I do not intend to do their songs justice in these few lines(as it is not possible)but it finds the boys experimenting successfully (unlike Cher) with an auto-tune. The whole album is totally great and although it may take a few listens to appreciate some of the songs on the album, especially when you may have become used to the more hi-nrg "Nightlife" and "Very", you will find that it just gets better and better with time like a fine wine and is unmissable - it is up there with "Behaviour" as one of their best albums. My favourite tracks are, well, the whole album really! But you can't miss "The Samurai in Autumn" - pump the volume up nice and loud and also "The Night I fell in Love" where a gay Eminem invites a school boy backstage for a "private performance" and for all of us who struggle in love "the bleakly personal" (to quote Lord Tennant of Chelsea)"Love is a Catastrophe" and "You Choose" and "Here" and "E-Mail" (as I said earlier, the entire album!). This is intelligent pop at its best. I apologise for such a poorly written review in light of such an excellent album. I don't have the words. Buy this now!!!! The boys tour again from May to July this year - be there and support them. Visit [URL]!

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