Pet Shop Boys - Elysium
2009's Yes saw the return of the Pet Shop Boys' no-holds-barred love of disco pop. The lead single Love Etc. was one of the band's most European-sounding of dance tunes, and featured Neil Tennant in a slightly holier-than-thou light. "Don't have to be a big bucks Hollywood star", he drawled, as though frontman of an anarchic outfit at the grass-roots stage of his career, and the whole result was a little bit silly. The Pet Shop Boys are typically famed for their amusing, dry, poetic lyrics and Yes quite missed the mark. In substituting their more bombastic sound for a collection of string arrangements and quiet little synths, the duo here focus on their alter ego that they so aptly described with the release of their double-disc greatest hits collection PopArt : one side dancefloor fillers ( Always on My Mind , What Have I Done to Deserve This? ), the other more reflective and genius ( Being Boring , Left to My Own Devices ). But given that in their ...