It's our lockdown album.

April 25, 2024 9:26 PM

'An evening with Pet Shop Boys' 22-04-2024 [Guardian Live, 1h23m] "To celebrate the launch of their highly anticipated new studio album, Nonetheless [Wikipedia], join Pet Shop Boys in conversation with the Guardian’s Alexis Petridis - live in London, with an exclusive album playback, and livestreamed globally."

Here's a non-exclusive album playback of the full album, 10 tracks, YouTube playlist.

posted by hippybear (9 comments total)

Also, this album, feeling a bit like Dave Bowman looking into the Monolith.... "My god! It's full of strings!"
posted by hippybear at 9:33 PM on April 25 [2 favorites]

I like Loneliness , the first track and first single, and have been waiting for the full album to drop, nice to learn it from here, thanks hippybear! I was ten years old in 1993-1994 when Can You Forgive Her? was playing on the radio a lot and I think someone had like a greatest hits CD or something. I just re-bought Very on CD last summer, love the plastic case. It's a Sin used to get a lot of airplay on radio in early/mid nineties in Finland even though it had come out in summer '87. Go West also.
posted by fridgebuzz at 11:51 PM on April 25 [1 favorite]

In the early morning hours last night, I heard about the Pet Shop Boys on the BBC about their new album. I lied there in the dark thinking hippybear will have this covered. I woke up to find that Yes! hippybear did have this covered. Thanks!
posted by njohnson23 at 6:22 AM on April 26 [4 favorites]

I know what I'm listening to at work today.
posted by mrphancy at 9:04 AM on April 26

Can I just say, if you're a PSB fan, it may behoove you to watch that interview. It's one of the best things I've seen them do; Chris even gets a bit chatty a couple of times. I think they might be feeling the weight of their history, especially after this gigantic album SMASH of greatest hits and then also 40 years of West End Girls. Neil in particular seems VERY keen on making sure who they are and how they think and what they stand for ends up clearly articulated even when a few decades ago being coy was more their style.

I'm very curious to see what the next decade brings for PSB. I think they might be about to do some of their most audacious work even while they approach what some might call "old age".

I'm working on a post gathering pro-filmings of all their concert tours together, as many as I can find. That will be an interesting journey.
posted by hippybear at 4:39 PM on April 26 [2 favorites]

And continuing to listen to this album... it feels a bit like what they might have been going for with Elyseum or Hotspot, but failed in those two instances.

On some level it feels like they keep chasing the miracle that was Behavior., but I'm not sure that can ever be recaptured? That was such a specific time and everyone is so much older now.
posted by hippybear at 6:12 PM on April 26 [1 favorite]

Okay, if you're a PSB fan and haven't heard this, then here:

PET SHOP BOYS - BBC2 (Jo Whiley) 25/04/2024 [33m]

This is delightful because Chris is SO much more interactive when he doesn't have a camera on him. And it's very relaxed.
posted by hippybear at 7:39 PM on April 26

Huge PSB fan here. But so far I am underwhelmed by this album. Frankly, I miss Stuart Price's production.
posted by Artifice_Eternity at 8:26 PM on April 28

Rolling Stone interview: "The Pet Shop Boys Are Having a Renaissance. What Have They Done To Deserve This?"
posted by Pronoiac at 7:18 PM on May 4