Super (Pet Shop Boys album)

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Studio album by Pet Shop Boys
Cover

Publication
(s)

April 1, 2016

admission

2014-2015

Label (s) x2, cobalt

Genre (s)

pop

running time

46:33

production

Pet Shop Boys , Stuart Price

chronology
Electric
(2013)
great Hotspot
(2020)

Super is the thirteenth studio album by the British pop duo Pet Shop Boys . It was released on April 1, 2016 and is the second album by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe to be released on their own label "x2". Like the previous album Electric , it was produced by Stuart Price .

history

The album was recorded in November 2014 in Berlin, London and Los Angeles. On January 21, 2016, Inner Sanctum was released as the first album ; however, the song The Pop Kids was released on March 18, 2016 as the first regular single . As part of the album release and the 30th anniversary of the band's first album ( Please ), the Pet Shop Boys played four sold-out concerts at the Royal Opera House in London in July 2016 (July 20-23) .

reception

The album was received positively by the critics and has a Metascore of 75 on Metacritic (as of December 3, 2016). So judged z. B. Sven Kabelitz on laut.de:

"Despite the abandonment of the Pet Shop Boys' usual approach of having an album with a stylistic counter-draft to its predecessor, the second round in the 'Electric' carousel with the Suart Price swing brake works splendidly. [...] [Es] The following still applies: elephantastic. galaxy-sized. Scented. Knorke. Schnieke. Great. Dignified. Premium. Best. Schnafte. Impressive. Great. Fine. [...] Great. Ultra. Great. Pet Shop Boys. "

Track list

  1. Happiness a - 4:04
  2. The Pop Kids a - 3:55
  3. Twenty-something a - 4:22
  4. Groovy a - 3:29
  5. The Dictator Decides a - 4:50
  6. Pazzo! a - 2:44
  7. Inner Sanctum a - 4:18
  8. Undertow a - 4:15
  9. Sad Robot World a - 3:18
  10. Say It To Me b - 3:08
  11. Burn a - 3:53
  12. Into Thin Air a - 4:17

The titles are written by:

a Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe
b Neil Tennant, Chris Lowe and Stuart Price

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Pet Shop Boys, The Super Interview, Murray Chalmers / MCPR, late 2015
  2. Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / petshopboys.co.uk
  3. ↑ Great by Pet Shop Boys. In: Metacritic. Retrieved April 17, 2016 .
  4. Permasteil. Scented. Knork. Schnieke. Great. Dignified. Sniff. In: laut.de. Retrieved April 3, 2016 .