Electric (Pet Shop Boys album)

Electric
Studio album by Pet Shop Boys
Publication (s)	15th July 2013
admission	2012-2013
Label (s)	x2, cobalt
Genre (s)	pop
running time	50:00
production	Pet Shop Boys , Stuart Price
chronology Elysium (2012) Electric Super (2016)

Electric is the twelfth studio album by the British pop duo Pet Shop Boys . It was released in 2013 and is the first album by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe that is not released by Parlophone , but by their own label "x2". It was produced by Stuart Price .

It contains, among other things, a cover of the song The Last to Die by Bruce Springsteen as well as the song Thursday , for which the Pet Shop Boys collaborated with the rapper Example .

history

The album was recorded from November 2012 to April 2013 in London, Berlin and Los Angeles. Fluorescent was written and recorded in April 2013. A short trailer for the album was released on YouTube on March 14th . On May 1st, the first single Axis was released as a download on iTunes, Amazon MP3, Juno Download etc. The music video has since been available on YouTube and tape.tv as well.

Track list

1. Axis ^a - 5:32
2. Bolshy ^a - 5:44
3. Love Is a Bourgeois Construct ^b - 6:41
4. Fluorescent ^a - 6:14
5. Inside a Dream ^c - 5:37
6. The Last to Die ^e - 4:12
7. Shouting in the Evening ^a - 3:36
8. Thursday ^d (featuring Example ) - 5:02
9. Vocal ^a - 6:34

The titles are written by:

^a Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe

^bNeil Tennant, Chris Lowe, Henry Purcell

^cNeil Tennant, Chris Lowe, William Blake

^d Neil Tennant, Chris Lowe, Example

^e Bruce Springsteen

Web links

• Review of the album on musikmarkt.de ( Memento from September 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
• http://petshopboys.co.uk

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://petshopboys.co.uk/news/3788
2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDCU17wXktY
3. ↑ http://www.tape.tv/musikvideos/Pet-Shop-Boys/Axis