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9.0
5561
9.0 |
musicOMH
Danceable yet everyday pop, with irony behind the warmth and warmth behind the irony. One of their best.
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8.0
5562
8.0 |
Observer Music Monthly
Co-produced with Girls Aloud's team Xenomania..It sags mid-album, but the Brits won't demand a recount.
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8.0
5565
8.0 |
Spin
Startlingly effusive tenth album.
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8.0
5569
8.0 |
The List
Everything that’s ace about the Pet Shop Boys is here.
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8.0
5570
8.0 |
The Quietus
Comfortably their best collection of songs since 1993's near-faultless Very. For those who've remained immune to their charms up until now, well, this probably won't be the album to convert you.
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8.0
5560
8.0 |
Independent on Sunday
Let us dispense, right away, with any clichéd crit-speak about a ""stunning return to form"". Show me when the Pet Shop Boys ever lost it, and I'll call you a liar.
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6.0
5564
6.0 |
Scotland on Sunday
Pet Shop Boys don't need updating, just a good polish, and production Midas Xenomania buff them up very nicely.
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6.0
5571
6.0 |
The Scotsman
Pet Shop Boys don't need updating, just a good polish, and production Midas Xenomania buff them up very nicely.
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6.0
5572
6.0 |
The Sunday Times
The most listenable Pet Shop Boys album in a long time.
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6.0
5573
6.0 |
The Times
An album that will find a place in the hearts of more than just wishful-thinking diehards.
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6.0
5574
6.0 |
Uncut
The heart of the album lies in more low-key numbers.
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6.0
5566
6.0 |
The Guardian
It pootles along just as one would expect a moderate-to-strong Pet Shop Boys album to do.
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6.0
5567
6.0 |
The Independent
Perfectly acceptable revisions of standard PSB tropes, one can't help thinking it's all a bit underwhelming.
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6.0
5568
6.0 |
The Irish Times
The overall impression is that we’ll have to wait for a few years more until another classic comes along.
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6.0
5559
6.0 |
Evening Standard
This 10th outing is an old-fashioned Pet Shop Boys album, in both senses.
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5.0
5558
5.0 |
Drowned In Sound
It’s just a shame to have squandered the momentum of the Brits by turning in a weaker album... the Pet Shop Boys have well and truly entered middle age.
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4.9
5563
4.9 |
Pitchfork
Frontman Neil Tennant has built his career out of being a master ironist. That, it turns out, is why the band's 10th studio album is such a disappointment.
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