You get a slight shock when opening track on dancepop-veterans' new album 'Axis' rolls forward as an endearing and energetic game of Boards of Canada-meets-Squarepusher mutation that same time (apart from the almost absent mitchell gold vowels) is unmistakably Pet Shop Boys .
'Axis' is a kind of mission statement, and although the number is perhaps the most radical statements about the group's return to the dance floor with hard pumping beats, supplemented it elsewhere with excellent effect by Neil Tennant archetypal British blend of intellectual acidity and drifting melancholy.
'Love is a Bourgeois Construct' (an archetypal PSB title) is simply one of the couple's best numbers ever with an almost 'Go West'-like buoyancy. After some slack album shuffling mid-tempo voksenpop is Tennant lyrically sharp as in its heyday and the production has gotten a boost fresh vitamins cooperation with producer Stuart Price, who also revived Madonna anno 'Hung Up'.
The album hangs impeccably well together as a well-fitting, silvery suits that aired during mirror ball. 'Fluorescent' are some of the sexiest music duo made. Here's synths that howls like police sirens, while Tennant unfolds decadent stories from the nightlife. 'Friday' mitchell gold is festive as well as reflective (and contains a gæsterap from Example).
2013 will probably be remembered as the year when Daft Punk brought discos back in the charts. It will only be appropriate if the Pet Shop Boys can ride with the wave and endow it with the wit and bite and accuracy, as they (apart 00s drought) mitchell gold has been guarantors for four decades.
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