Pet Shop Boys
Electric
There's a thing where you can stream this album on the Guardian website, so I thought I'd check it out. Opening track Axis is a fantastic pop song - I found myself dancing in my seat. It has the standard 120bpm dance beat, but the Pet Shop Boys actually manage to bring some originality into it - not an easy thing to do in EDM. Forget Daft Punk - this should be the dance anthem of the summer.
Bolshy is a euphoric floorfiller that is unfortunately let down by the singer's irritating voice and awful lyrics. The next track, the appallingly titled Love Is A Bourgeois Concept (!?) is basically the same, and I'm going to give up on the whole track-by-track review here, because every song on this album is a big, upbeat dance track. Some have good lyrics - this one for example,; some have shit lyrics - Bolshy, Flourescent, Last To Die (seriously, when you're covering Springsteen, don;t pick a song from fucking Magic - it's like deciding to do a Dylan cover and doing Wiggle Wiggle); some are heavier, such as the fantastic Shouting In The Evening; some are lighter. But they're all essentially the same thing. It's a damn good album, but a little too uniform - the songs are all fantastic, and they'd make great singles, but it's rather trying to listen to the whole thing all the way through. Still, I'd recommend buying it.
Rating: 8/10
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