The Pet Shop Boys have really taken it back to the sounds of yesteryear on their latest album “Super”. With Neil and Chris exercising the rightful liberty of fashioning an album which comes in direct celebration of their 30 years in the business.
Freshly squeezed with the kind of electronic pop which part breathes nostalgia and that of freestyled experimentation. The old masters have again landed a long player effort which upholds their crafting of precision made electronica which steadfastly so, is no less diminished in relevancy in the modern day.
PSB aren’t about writing chart bound hits these days, it’s more about the kicks and keeping with their true authenticity. Which has always been Neil and Chris’s biggest asset anyways.
“Super’s” former spawned singles “The Pop Kids” and “Twenty-Something” fulfil the classic PSB requisites of darkly twisted, dance-pop flair. For “Say It To Me” the third track to be lifted off the album they’ve given over to a decidedly poppier effort to see them through from taking their recent packed out live shows at the Royal Opera House to stepping out on an upcoming tour.
On “Say It To Me”, PSB have become firmly rooted in the essence of 90’s ignited club sounds and it all comes off rattling, not quite with the snap, snap, snap of fireworks going off (which in truth we would have preferred) but most certainly it has the capacity to heat up the dancefloor into a PSB amped frenzy, at any rate.
If you’ve got a stereo stack system boxed up in your loft, time is now to seek it out and dust if off as “Say It To Me” is being shipped out on CD and Vinyl formats.