Elysium (Pet Shop Boys album)

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Elysium
Studio album by Pet Shop Boys

Publication
(s)

September 7, 2012

admission

2012

Label (s) Parlophone

Genre (s)

pop

running time

51:02

production

Andrew Dawson , Pet Shop Boys

chronology
Yes
(2009)
Elysium Electric
(2013)

Elysium is the eleventh studio album by the Pet Shop Boys . It was released by Parlophone on September 7, 2012 .

history

The Pet Shop Boys began writing the pieces for the album in Berlin in February 2011 over a period of five weeks. Mostly it was written during the Progress Live tour with Take That from May to July 2011. After all, it was recorded in Los Angeles with Andrew Dawson within three months of January 2012 . The collaboration with Dawson came after Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe heard about Dawson's work for Kanye West . Lowe emotionally compared the album to Behavior .

reception

Sven Kabelitz from Laut.de called the record "a sensitive album bursting with age wisdom" and awarded it four out of five stars.

Track List (UK Version)

  1. "Leaving" - 3:50
  2. "Invisible" - 5:05
  3. "Winner" - 3:50
  4. "Your Early Stuff" - 2:33
  5. "A Face Like That" - 5:07
  6. "Breathing Space" - 5:10
  7. "Ego Music" - 3:05
  8. "Hold On" ( Georg Friedrich Handel , Tennant, Lowe) - 3:19
  9. "Give It a Go" - 3:53
  10. "Memory of the Future" - 4:31
  11. "Everything Means Something" - 4:50
  12. "Requiem in Denim and Leopardskin" - 5:49

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturevideo/musicvideo/9552938/Pet-Shop-Boys-Elysium-track-by-track-interview.html
  2. http://www.laut.de/Pet-Shop-Boys/Elysium-(Album)