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So to Yes, the Pet Shop Boys tenth album. Is it the point where Noughties pop meets culture defining art? Or just one lengthy pop orgasm? It's more of the former. It is not the huge pop expolosion that a spot of knob twiddling between Neil Tennant, Chris Lowe and Brian Higgins might initially suggest. It's more restrained than that. More considered. Intelligent, obviously. Catchy, completely. Great? Yes.

So yes, Yes is a welcome addition. It's got a real dignity to it, like the Pet Shop Boys go folk but in their own signature synthy way. It seems like a record celebrating all the best things about Pet Shop Boys. It's time to fall in love with the best British pop band - and dare we say - possibly the best British band ever, all over again.

By the sounds of this, it's going to be a momentous, celebratory year for the Pet Shop Boys. Their return to action at the Brits, the ceremony where they once had a miners' choir back them up on Go West, offers an opportunity for these middle aged popstars to go absolutely wonderfully mental. And lead single Love Etc is certainly ripe for pulling out the miners again with its Go West meets Chumbawamba call and response.

There are plenty of other big theatrical moments on Yes. Building a wall sees more toing and froing between Chris and Neil on lines like "Protection/Prevention/Detection/Detention" and a classic Tennantism "I'm building a wall/a fine wall/not so much to keep you out/More to keep me in". Oh, and a ridiculous talky bit where Neil gets romantic about British things like a cup of tea to which Chris responds: "Who'd you think you are? Captain Britain?" It's very funny.

Elsewhere, the politics-meets-the-personal thread that dominates last album Fundamental is shed. Instead, Yes is stuffed to the gills with L.O.V.E. There's unashamedly sunny pop like Did You See Me Coming? and drop-down-on-your-knees epicness on the six minute Legacy as Neil begins: "That's it/The end/But you'll get over it/My friend".

An instant hit is The Way It Used To Be, which takes the electronic euphoria of Faithless and submerges it in sadness. It is completely beautiful with a brilliant final bit where Neil sings "Then and there/I'd knew that I lost you" as it gets all swizzy. You will want to go for a lie down in a darkened room afterwards and have a little blub.

Suburban_Boy wrote:It's got a real dignity to it

Suburban_Boy wrote: An instant hit is The Way It Used To Be, which takes the electronic euphoria of Faithless and submerges it in sadness.

Elsewhere, the politics-meets-the-personal thread that dominates last album Fundamental is shed. Instead, Yes is stuffed to the gills with L.O.V.E.

drunk14 wrote:''That's it/The end/But you'll get over it/My friend''

I hope it means the end of the album...not a career

nickname wrote:

drunk14 wrote:''That's it/The end/But you'll get over it/My friend''

I hope it means the end of the album...not a career

I HOPE so