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9.0
85413
9.0 |
PopMatters
Thirty years since "West End Girls" launched their career, Pet Shop Boys are back with a thrilling new album produced by Stuart Price, SUPER
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8.0
85471
8.0 |
State
This is Pet Shop Boys’ love letter to themselves, and there’s a lot here to love
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8.0
85228
8.0 |
Q
A rich vein of form continues for the pop-dance veterans. Print edition only
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8.0
85399
8.0 |
musicOMH
Even as they enter a fourth decade their music has an awful lot to say, and is finding increasingly enjoyable ways of saying it
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8.0
85238
8.0 |
God Is In The TV
Super is a very good record that’s as varied and inspired as they’ve ever been. For a band that sounded so tired in 2012, their continued rejuvenation is welcome
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8.0
85316
8.0 |
DIY
Frequent, frantic builds and drops, whooshes and exultant crescendos abound throughout
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8.0
85329
8.0 |
Evening Standard
Neil Tennant still sounds simultaneously wry and mournful and Chris Lowe’s euphoric surges still tickle both heart and body. They are indestructible
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8.0
85338
8.0 |
The Guardian
They remain, now and forever, the pop kids
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8.0
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8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
This is Pet Shop Boys stock-in-trade, a thirty-year nod towards the ultimate absurdity of life, and how persistent vibe maintenance can steer you through the course and keep your world ticking over
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8.0
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NME
Pet Shop Boys’ innate love of pop endures
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7.0
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7.0 |
Spin
Although the Pet Shop Boys flirt with the generic (and on rare missteps like “Undertow” achieve it), they still understand the allure of power — or, rather, the allure of projecting power
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7.0
85546
7.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
The dance tracks blend into one, but any album judged against such a magnificent back catalogue as the Pet Shop Boys' has much to live up to
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7.0
85227
7.0 |
Uncut
A reminder that PSBs remain a lively genre of their own creation. Print edition only
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7.0
85523
7.0 |
Exclaim
Finds the Pet Shop Boys maintaining their trademark melodies and throbbing dance anthems, while exhibiting consistency that's made them such a force for the past three decades
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7.0
85112
7.0 |
Slant Magazine
Super's best songs cleverly subvert the expectations set up by the joyous music
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7.0
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7.0 |
Beardfood
They’re dancing and singing as if nobody is looking, and we’re right alongside
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6.9
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6.9 |
Pitchfork
The Pet Shop Boys have persisted long enough that their return to club music feels calmly liberated, without any grasping for pop hits
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6.5
85517
6.5 |
Spectrum Culture
It’s remarkable how enjoyable the LP is given how completely out of step with relevance it sounds
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6.0
85229
6.0 |
Mojo
All through this listenable, though frankly inconsequential album, PSB are stuck on a sound. Print edition only
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6.0
85200
6.0 |
The Arts Desk
Maybe an act who have essentially not changed their modus operandi for their entire career just want to do something wild and new
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Observer
A 21st-century approach is useful here – park the nostalgia and just download the best bits
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6.0
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The FT
Moments of disco autopilot such as “Groovy” ensure it is not quite as sprightly as its predecessor, but the best tracks are fascinating exercises in dance-pop ambiguity
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6.0
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6.0 |
NOW
The album is full of the group's signature dreamy arpeggios, massive drum rolls, epic builds and breaks - expertly produced with Stuart Price
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5.8
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5.8 |
Consequence Of Sound
There's nothing different on their latest, but the electropop duo still somehow sound fresh
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5.5
85717
5.5 |
Under The Radar
All in all, it makes for a record whose potential to be exceptional is all-too frustrating
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5.0
85113
5.0 |
The Music
The Boys still know how to party, but Super leaves one craving substance
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