Electric - the new album Pet Shop Boys new album, "Electric", will now be released worldwide on July 15th (international dates vary) and is the first to appear on their own label x2 through Kobalt Label Services. Produced by Stuart Price, "Electric" features nine tracks in total – eight brand new songs plus a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s "The last to die" - and has a running length of 50 minutes. The British singer and rapper, Example, performs on one track, "Thursday". The album was recorded in London, Berlin and Los Angeles over the last six months with one track, "Fluorescent", written and recorded within the last month. Neil and Chris comment: “Our latest album often evolves as a response to our previous album and, whereas ‘Elysium’ had a reflective mood, ‘Electric’ is pretty banging! And working with Stuart Price on a studio album is something we have wanted to do for a very long time." The artwork (shown here) is by Farrow.

Originally posted by Lophorina https://soundcloud.com/pet-shop-boys-in-paris/bolshy

So good. I love the production in "Shouting In The Evening", the elegance of "Bolshy". "Love Is A Bourgeois Construct" has a killer disco vibe powered by a catchy bubblegum synth line. The singles, "Axis" and "Vocal" sound even more addictive as intro and outro of the album respectively, the latter one even gets close to the grandiosity of their 80s/90s singles.

Steve Pafford ‏@stevepafford 6m Gosh. #petshopboys are No.1 in the midweeks. I'll have to eat my words. Gulp ow.ly/n0btT pic.twitter.com/XUFixgMCsW