Great blog on 6 of the best (songs) by Chris Lowe

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“Dancing to Roxy and Bowie”: Reviewing the Pet Shop Boys, Nonetheless

EXCLUSIVE: It’s the Steve Pafford album review, innit.

As the Pet Shop Boys unveil their long-awaited fifteenth studio set, it might be too much to expect Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe to define our times as definitively as they did in the 1980s.

Their first dozen or so hits — from the barren breakthrough of West End Girls (first released a staggering 40 years ago today) to the beautifully ruminative Being Boring — now appear to offer a blisteringly concise guide to Margaret Thatcher’s Britain, from big bang boom to tearstained bust.

Yet there are certainly occasional gems in the PSB’s post imperial output, too, and after a decade-long trio of albums on their own independent label, with Nonetheless the duo have returned to Parlophone to craft arguably their most varied album since the 1990s.

Let’s run through the tracks tonight.....

https://www.stevepafford.com/nonetheless/