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9.0
137448
9.0 |
God Is In The TV
They are the Pet Shop Boys, just being the Pet Shop Boys and they’ll be the Pet Shop Boys forever. Thankfully
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8.0
137493
8.0 |
Albumism
Nonetheless advances the pair’s long anthology of delivering insightful narratives with blissful melodies, stately symphonious ornamentation, and elevated cultural commentary
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8.0
137563
8.0 |
Mojo
As that peppery title suggests, Nonetheless shows the duo pulling themselves up to full songwriting height, not just forging on, but flourishing
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8.0
137564
8.0 |
The Observer
The duo’s first LP in four years finds them refining and updating their late-80s heyday sound, with a new producer in tow
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8.0
137565
8.0 |
All Music
Their devotion to pop and belief it in its power is affecting and oddly reassuring, particularly because Nonetheless works so well as an album: there's no fat, no excess, so the craft that services the emotion is difficult to deny
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8.0
137319
8.0 |
The Independent
Neil Tennant spins intoxicating tales of dancefloor liberation and queer trailblazers
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8.0
137320
8.0 |
musicOMH
One of their best albums in years finds Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe harking back to their past in melancholic reflection
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8.0
137321
8.0 |
Clash
There any many other fine moments here; these are merely what moved this writer the most. Taken as a whole, this is an utterly brilliant, dependably polished listen, and one that is unquestionably up there with the best moments in this duo’s storied career
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8.0
137323
8.0 |
The Arts Desk
Tennant takes on a new performance persona that gloriously mixes Butlins Red Coat, stern children’s fiction headmaster and Frankie Howerd
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8.0
137324
8.0 |
NME
The duo work with James Ford on this lush, impressive collection that continues upholds their status as pop greats
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8.0
137325
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Nonetheless feels airy and welcoming, qualities that have sometimes eluded its more recent predecessors, it resonates emotionally in ways that befit elder statesmen who can look to the future while comfortably acknowledging the past
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8.0
137342
8.0 |
Dork
Still at the top of their game and occupying their own esteemed place in the British pop pantheon, the Pet Shop Boys are as familiarly brilliant as ever
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7.0
137322
7.0 |
The Quietus
This album is for listeners like me for whom their songs have provided the soundtrack for getting ready to go out after the disco nap, for whom their songs have commented on life’s compromises
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