The produced in Los Angeles and partly written and recorded in Berlin album "Elysium" is the eleventh regular work in the career of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe.
The songs are getting older ("Invisible" - this Neil told the Spex: "It is at a party and feels old and useless Declining sexual attractiveness, ah ... the whole shebang up with which one homosexual as an older man. has to do. ") In addition, Neil told he had come to the text as he read an interview with an elderly woman who said if a woman is over 40 years old then it is no longer perceived, it seems as if it invisible was ...
Furthermore, the songs are parting ("Requiem for denim and leopard skin" and "Leaving") but has also positive sides such. B. "Winner" which is of course a certain irony could be, just as you would from the two is used ...
Relatively strong words can be heard in the song "Ego Music", in which no contact Pet Shop Boys for the first time with the showbiz and the concomitant personality change many people apart (see "Shameless" or "How can you expect to be taken seriously ? ").
Another interesting text is "Your early stuff." Neil Tennant has collected statements that have been carved into his London taxis around the ears and from the Pet Shop Boys have tinkered a song.
From the sound of her album is sometimes very quiet. As mentioned above, I'm often on the work in 1990 "Behaviour" remembers which is located similarly moody and ethereal and slightly above the ground gently pluckert (what is meant positively).
Bold it is rarely as "A face like that" (has a little bit of "Domino Dancing"), which according to Neil next single "Leaving", the just mentioned "Ego Music" or uplifting mid-tempo track "Memory of the future ".
It is clear that the Pet Shop Boys no longer the party hedonists are the they were when they were founded in the early eighties. Neil is 58 years and Chris is 52 years old. What's great credit of the band: they bend not in a forced youthfulness, but sit down - as on this record - the topic apart, but always remain on the cutting edge, produce current sounds, attract each other strikingly grandiose, keep but always and admirably her dignity and her attitude.
Beautiful image and the feeling after the inaugural concert in Berlin by 22 clock had to come out: before it was summer, and now was to feel that it will slowly fall ...
