The Pet Shop Boys Yes Album Details
Produced by Xenomania, Guitar by Johnny Marr, Lead by 'Love Etc.'
The Pet Shop Boys enlisted rock/pop royalty to assist them on their latest album, Yes, to be released this spring. Yes is their first album of new material since 2006’s Fundamental.
The Pet Shop Boys enlist Johnny Marr & Xenomania
Yes was produced by Brian Higgins, songwriter and producer who works under the name Xenomania. Past collaborations include work with 90’s disco-revamped Cher, Kylie Minogue and Girls Aloud. Former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr also plays on several of the 11 newly recorded tracks.
Marr, who now plays with The Cribs, has previously teamed up with Neil Tennant, lead singer for the Pet Shop Boys, for their 1989 collaboration “Getting Away With It” a track recorded as Electronic along with New Order singer Bernard Sumner.
The current Girls Aloud single “The Loving Kind”, was co-written by Xenomania and The Pet Shop Boys, after the bands met during Yes recording sessions.
Love Etc
The album’s first single, “Love Etc.” will be released on March 16, 2009. The Pet Shop Boys collaborated and co-wrote three tracks with Xenomania which made the final cut including “Love Etc.” as well as album tracks “More Than A Dream”and “The Way It Used To Be”. The rest of the album was written by Tennant/Lowe with a credit given to Tchaikovsky on the cut "All Over the world".
The Pet Shop Boys have also enlisted string arranger Owen Pallett to contribute to Yes. Pallet, of Final Fantasy, has previously worked with The Arcade Fire and The Last Shadow Puppets.
On the official Pet Shop Boys website Chris Lowe comments “This album is amazing and it was great working with Xenomania”. “It’s a fantastic, wide-ranging pop record,” Neil Tennant adds, also telling the BBC that Yes is "a post-lifestyle anthem which sounds like nothing we've done before".
In addition to the 12 album tracks, The Pet Shop Boys are currently finishing several B-Sides to accompany the album’s lead single “Love Etc.”. “We’re all Criminals Now,” which Tennant reports as a song about “the erosions of freedom in this country,” and “Gin and Jag”, described as being “Quite dark” will be released along with “Love Etc.” on March 16, 2009.
The Pet Shop Boys Yes Tracklist
- Love Etc.
- All Over The World
- Beautiful People
- Did You See Me Coming?
- Vulnerable
- More Than A Dream
- Building A Wall
- King Of Rome
- Pandemonium
- The Way It Used To Be
- Legacy
The Pet Shop Boys, now men in their early 50’s, have scored 22 British top ten singles as well as 4 number one songs over the course of their career which began in 1986 with their world wide smash “West End Girls”.
The group has won several Brit Awards and this year receives the award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. The band is also preparing to perform during the live ceremony on February 18, 2009 at London’s Earls Court.
The Pet Shop Boys Yes will be released worldwide on March 23, 2009.
Additional sources: BBC, NME, Official Pet Shop Boys website, Yahoo Music UK
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