The Pet Shop Boys have with their synthpop dozens of songs fabricated, particularly of course in their magical and most successful period between 1985 and about 1993rd
In addition to the enchanting melodies Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe was almost always danceable pieces their special concern. They loved and love to this day, the nights in the clubs, the magenrüttelnden bass, the sound effects, the laser beams, the light at all. Anyone can be beautiful and important for a few exhaustive, but blessed hours in this light before the Hangover faced the dancers brutal with their everyday impositions.
The late work ELECTRIC conjures the illusion of night again very powerful up. The longing for the floating, weightlessness and the lost youth. The latter especially: 'And everything about tonight feels right and so young / And anything I'd want to say out loud will be sung' ("Vocal"). This is so beautiful that you want to howl.
The cover artwork of this album, the first to the (painful?) Separation from her longtime record company, waived defiantly on the naming of the band's name and the title plate. So as PSB wanted to show the world that they are still large and significant. Earlier mega bands like Pink Floyd enjoyed doing something.
The music flows emphasizes bass and powerful out of the speakers. Even the dramatic introduction of the first track "Axis" Enormous promises, and so it comes then: First follow Sequencertöne as 1982 with the fat drag queen Divine ("Shoot Your Shot"), before it then goes on as 80-heavy. 'Electric Energy' evokes the Tennant dancing people again from the depths of space. He's right!
"Bolshy" (German for 'rude' or 'gooey') starts well and then left quickly after strong. 'Bolshy, Bolshy, Bolshy-o'sings Tennant, and the nerves just like somehow the whole piece. Quick press next.
With the catchy "Love Is A Bourgeois Construct" want PSB clearly the hit. A known sequence of notes by British composer Henry Purcell Fi is subliminally as Madonna once the legendary keyboard phrase from ABBA's "Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight)". 'Love is a bourgeois construct, and that's why I let the bourgeoisie behind me' boast the two parlor Bolsheviks and grin while one.
"Fluorescent" is a rather modern lounge-dance track, but also a bit reminiscent of Visage. Can you hear well, as well as the floating "Inside A Dream".
With "The Last To Die" is Tennant / Lowe dare again to an unexpected cover version zoom: The hedonistic British intellectuals shine just a song of 'Lawyer of the common man' Bruce Springsteen New Jersey / USA. But why not, after all, they did once just the old tearjerker "Always On My Mind" by Elvis Presley as one of its best and greatest (dance) hits.
"Shouting In The Evening" alternates between melodic Euro Dance and gray leagues scratch effects. A pure dance club number.
"Thursday (Featuring Example)" is very typical Pet Shop Boys, but unfortunately interferes with a rap insert the pleasure.
The final piece is called "Vocal" and transfigured in the text mentioned above love for the nights in the clubs and to the singer / pause / n, the only award the dance numbers where their true depth: 'I like the singer / He's lonely and strange / Every track has a vocal / And that makes a change '. Rhythmically the title is a little bulky, therefore, but about twenty years ago this style was very common. Tennant / Lowe employ yes always happy with everything that was announced in the dance halls since the 70s until today and is.
Total electric seems like the summary of a varied night in a good disco to give, after such nights yes mostly no longer so knows exactly what pieces because now all been played. In other words: This album unfolds its effect rather than complete works because by individual, outstanding songs. And this body of work makes a lot of fun.
