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The Pet Shop Boys have never made a bad album, but with Nightlife, they started to seem a little worn out, as if they had explored their sound as far as it would go. But Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe are among the smartest, pop-savvy groups to ever record, so they not only realized they were stagnating, they knew what to do about it, bringing Tennant's Electronic partner and former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr for several songs, and moving the group toward careful, considered, mature pop for their eighth album, Release (another pun-worth title, worthy of Please). For most artists, the adjective "mature" would seem an epithet, but here it's an accurate description for this elegant, eloquent, knowing music -- it's maturation achieved through experience and worldliness, not an exorbitant bank account. On that level, this is about the most mature pop album released this decade, exhibiting a refined sense of craft and a keen sense of purpose, marrying the particular sentiment of a song with the right production. It's hard to call Release an album of its time, since it hardly falls prey to trends, but it's aware of its time -- an album that's proudly out of step with the particulars of hipness, but knows what they constitute, knows what they feel like, knows what modernism means for somebody who's lived their life with the burden of being hip, whose always felt a compulsion to stay on top of things -- and feeling that desire fade as you get older. So, that means that while Release occasionally sings of the new -- synth lines, vocoders, beats, a song designed to respond to Eminem's homophobia (the exquisite "The Night I Fell in Love") -- it's from the vantage of people who have lived through all of this before, and know particulars will pass while the song remains the same. The great thing is, even if this sentiment has been present in previous Pet Shop Boys albums, they have brought the dance-club to the background (partially due to Marr's presence) and have brought the songs to the forefront, resulting in a record that feels like the Pet Shop Boys, even when it doesn't sound like them. And that's a good thing, since it retains their greatest attributes while giving them a new spin, and it makes for the best Pet Shop Boys album in nearly ten years.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Johnny Marr, Guitar - Michael Brauer, MixingEngineer - Andrew Nicholls, AssistantEngineer - Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - Pete Gleadall, Engineer, Programmer - Pet Shop Boys, Programmer, MainArtist - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Additional Vocals, Writer, Drum Programmer - Rick Chavarria, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Jody Linscott, Percussion
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2002, 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Johnny Marr, Guitar - Michael Brauer, MixingEngineer - Andrew Nicholls, AssistantEngineer - Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - Pete Gleadall, Engineer, Programmer - Pet Shop Boys, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Writer, Drum Programmer - Phillippe Rose, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Rick Chavarria, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Steve Walters, Bass Guitar - Jody Linscott, Percussion
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2002, 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Johnny Marr, Guitar - Michael Brauer, MixingEngineer - Andrew Nicholls, AssistantEngineer - Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - Harold Darke, Writer - Christina Rossetti, Writer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - Pete Gleadall, Engineer, Programmer - Pet Shop Boys, Programmer, MainArtist - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Writer, Drum Programmer - Phillippe Rose, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Rick Chavarria, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Steve Walters, Bass Guitar - Jody Linscott, Percussion
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2002, 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Michael Brauer, MixingEngineer - Florian Richter, MixingEngineer - Andrew Nicholls, AssistantEngineer - Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - Chris Zippel, Producer, Engineer, Keyboards, Writer - Pet Shop Boys, Programmer, MainArtist - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Writer, Drum Programmer - Rick Chavarria, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Kai Diener, MixingEngineer - Little Mike, Bass Guitar, Electric Guitar
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2002, 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Johnny Marr, Guitar - Michael Brauer, MixingEngineer - Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - Richard Niles, Conductor, Strings Arranger - Mike Ross, String Recording Engineer - Pete Gleadall, Engineer, Programmer - Pet Shop Boys, Programmer, MainArtist - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Writer, Drum Programmer - Rick Chavarria, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Jody Linscott, Percussion
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2002, 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Michael Brauer, MixingEngineer - Andrew Nicholls, AssistantEngineer - Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - Pete Gleadall, Engineer, Programmer - Pet Shop Boys, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Writer, Drum Programmer - Rick Chavarria, Assistant Mixing Engineer
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2002, 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Johnny Marr, Guitar - Michael Brauer, MixingEngineer - Andrew Nicholls, AssistantEngineer - Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - Pete Gleadall, Engineer, Programmer - Pet Shop Boys, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist - Chris Lowe, Producer, Keyboards, Writer, Drum Programmer - Phillippe Rose, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Rick Chavarria, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Jody Linscott, Percussion
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2002, 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Michael Brauer, MixingEngineer - Andrew Nicholls, AssistantEngineer - Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Vocals, Writer - Pete Gleadall, Engineer, Programmer - Pet Shop Boys, Programmer, MainArtist - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Writer, Drum Programmer - Rick Chavarria, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Jody Linscott, Percussion
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2002, 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Johnny Marr, Guitar - Michael Brauer, MixingEngineer - Andrew Nicholls, AssistantEngineer - Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - Pete Gleadall, Engineer, Programmer - Pet Shop Boys, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Writer, Drum Programmer - Rick Chavarria, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Steve Walters, Bass Guitar - Jody Linscott, Percussion
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2002, 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Johnny Marr, Guitar - Michael Brauer, MixingEngineer - Andrew Nicholls, AssistantEngineer - Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - Pete Gleadall, Engineer, Programmer - Pet Shop Boys, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Writer, Drum Programmer - Rick Chavarria, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Jody Linscott, Percussion
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2002, 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
DISC 2
T-Boy Ross, Writer - Johnny Marr, Guitar - Michael Brauer, MixingEngineer - Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - Leon Ware, Writer - Pete Gleadall, Programmer, Chief Engineer - Pet Shop Boys, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Writer, Drum Programmer - Rick Chavarria, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Jody Linscott, Percussion
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2002, 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Johnny Marr, Guitar - Michael Brauer, MixingEngineer - Tim Young, Remastering Engineer, MasteringEngineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - Pete Gleadall, Programmer, Chief Engineer - Pet Shop Boys, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Writer, Drum Programmer - Rick Chavarria, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Jody Linscott, Percussion
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2002, 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - Bob Kraushaar, Audio Recording Engineer, MixingEngineer - Pete Gleadall, Engineer, Programmer - Pet Shop Boys, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Writer, Drum Programmer
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2003, 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - Pete Gleadall, Programmer, Audio Recording Engineer, MixingEngineer - Pet Shop Boys, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Writer, Drum Programmer
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - Pete Gleadall, Programmer, Audio Recording Engineer, MixingEngineer - Pet Shop Boys, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Writer, Drum Programmer
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2010, 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - Pete Gleadall, Engineer, Programmer - Pet Shop Boys, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Writer, Drum Programmer
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2003, 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd
Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - Pete Gleadall, Programmer, Audio Recording Engineer, MixingEngineer - Pet Shop Boys, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Writer, Drum Programmer
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2002, 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Johnny Marr, Guitar - Michael Brauer, MixingEngineer - Andrew Nicholls, AssistantEngineer - Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Vocals, Writer - Pete Gleadall, Programmer, Audio Recording Engineer, MixingEngineer - Pet Shop Boys, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Writer, Drum Programmer - Phillippe Rose, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Rick Chavarria, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Jody Linscott, Percussion
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Vocals, Writer - Pete Gleadall, Engineer, Programmer - Pet Shop Boys, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - Goetz Botzenhardt, MixingEngineer
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 1999, 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - Pete Gleadall, Programmer, Audio Recording Engineer, MixingEngineer - Pet Shop Boys, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Writer, Drum Programmer
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Johnny Marr, Guitar - Michael Brauer, MixingEngineer - Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - Dave Lambert, Writer - Pete Gleadall, Engineer, Programmer - Pet Shop Boys, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Writer, Drum Programmer - Rick Chavarria, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Steve Walters, Bass Guitar - Jody Linscott, Percussion
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2004, 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Michael Brauer, MixingEngineer - Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - Pete Gleadall, Engineer, Programmer - Pet Shop Boys, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Writer, Drum Programmer - Rick Chavarria, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Jody Linscott, Percussion
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2002, 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - Pete Gleadall, Programmer, Audio Recording Engineer, MixingEngineer - Pet Shop Boys, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Additional Vocals, Writer, Drum Programmer
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2002, 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - Pete Gleadall, Programmer, Audio Recording Engineer, MixingEngineer - Pet Shop Boys, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Writer, Drum Programmer
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - Pete Gleadall, Programmer, Audio Recording Engineer, MixingEngineer - Pet Shop Boys, Producer, Engineer, Programmer, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Writer, Drum Programmer
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Mark Refoy, Guitar - Tim Young, Digital Remastering Masterer - NEIL TENNANT, Vocals, Writer - Pete Gleadall, Programmer - Pet Shop Boys, MainArtist - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Writer - Guy Worth, Producer - Christian Hayes, Guitar - Miti Adhikiri, Producer
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2017 BBC
Mark Refoy, Guitar - Tim Young, Digital Remastering Masterer - NEIL TENNANT, Vocals, Writer - Pete Gleadall, Programmer - Pet Shop Boys, MainArtist - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Writer - Guy Worth, Producer - Christian Hayes, Guitar - Miti Adhikiri, Producer
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2017 BBC
DISC 3
Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals - Pete Gleadall, Programmer, Audio Recording Engineer, MixingEngineer - Pet Shop Boys, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Drum Programmer - Bobby Orlando, Writer
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2003, 2016 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - Pete Gleadall, Engineer, Programmer - Pet Shop Boys, Programmer, Remix, MainArtist - Chris Lowe, Producer, Writer, Drum Programmer
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2002, 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Mark Refoy, Guitar - Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - Bob Kraushaar, Audio Recording Engineer, MixingEngineer - Pete Gleadall, Programmer - Pet Shop Boys, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Writer, Drum Programmer - Christian Hayes, Guitar
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2003, 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Mark Refoy, Guitar - Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - Bob Kraushaar, Audio Recording Engineer, MixingEngineer - Pete Gleadall, Programmer - Pet Shop Boys, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Writer, Drum Programmer - Christian Hayes, Guitar
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2010, 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Harry Wayne Casey, Writer - Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - Pete Gleadall, Programmer, Audio Recording Engineer, MixingEngineer - Pet Shop Boys, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Writer, Drum Programmer - Richard Finch, Writer
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2006, 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - Pete Gleadall, Programmer, Audio Recording Engineer, MixingEngineer - Pet Shop Boys, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Writer, Drum Programmer
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Trevor Horn, Bass Guitar, Electric Guitar, Brass, Outro Vocals, Additional Vocals Producer - Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - Pete Gleadall, Engineer, Programmer - Pet Shop Boys, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Writer, Drum Programmer - Neilz, MasteringEngineer
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2006, 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - Pet Shop Boys, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Writer, Drum Programmer
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - Pete Gleadall, Additional Programmer, Chief Engineer, MixingEngineer - Pet Shop Boys, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Writer, Drum Programmer
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2012, 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - Pete Gleadall, Programmer, Audio Recording Engineer, MixingEngineer - Pet Shop Boys, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Writer, Drum Programmer
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2004, 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Stuart Crichton, Additional Keyboards, Additional Production, MixingEngineer - Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - Anne Dudley, Conductor, Orchestral Arranger - Pete Craigie, MixingEngineer - Pet Shop Boys, MainArtist - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Writer, Drum Programmer - Dan Fresh Stein, Producer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Adam f, Producer, RecordingEngineer - DJ Fresh, Writer - Adam Fenton, Writer
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2003, 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Stuart Crichton, Producer, MixingEngineer - Felix J. Gauder, Producer - Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - Pete Craigie, MixingEngineer - Pete Gleadall, Engineer, Programmer - Pet Shop Boys, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Writer, Drum Programmer - Tomcraft, Producer
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2004, 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Diane Warren, Writer - Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals - Pete Gleadall, Programmer, Audio Recording Engineer, MixingEngineer - Pet Shop Boys, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Drum Programmer
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2006, 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Stuart Crichton, Producer, MixingEngineer - Elton John, FeaturedArtist - Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - Pete Craigie, MixingEngineer - Pete Gleadall, Original Programmer, Original Recording Engineer - Pet Shop Boys, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Writer, Drum Programmer
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2006, 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd
Elton John, FeaturedArtist - Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals - StarGate, Producer - Pete Gleadall, Additional Programmer - Pet Shop Boys, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Drum Programmer - Gilbert O' Sullivan, Writer
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd
Tor Erik Hermansen, Writer - Mikkel Eriksen, Writer - Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - StarGate, Producer - Pet Shop Boys, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Writer, Drum Programmer
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd
Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - Chris Zippel, Producer, Programmer, MixingEngineer - Pete Gleadall, Vocal Recording Engineer - Pet Shop Boys, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Writer, Drum Programmer
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2006, 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd
Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer - Chris Zippel, Producer, MixingEngineer - Pete Gleadall, Vocal Recording Engineer - Pet Shop Boys, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist - Chris Lowe, Keyboards, Writer, Drum Programmer - My Robot Friend, Writer
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2003, 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd
Tim Young, Remastering Engineer - NEIL TENNANT, Composer, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals - Pete Gleadall, Engineer, Programmer, MixingEngineer - Pet Shop Boys, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Chris Lowe, Composer, Keyboards, Drum Programmer
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 1987, 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Albumbeschreibung
The Pet Shop Boys have never made a bad album, but with Nightlife, they started to seem a little worn out, as if they had explored their sound as far as it would go. But Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe are among the smartest, pop-savvy groups to ever record, so they not only realized they were stagnating, they knew what to do about it, bringing Tennant's Electronic partner and former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr for several songs, and moving the group toward careful, considered, mature pop for their eighth album, Release (another pun-worth title, worthy of Please). For most artists, the adjective "mature" would seem an epithet, but here it's an accurate description for this elegant, eloquent, knowing music -- it's maturation achieved through experience and worldliness, not an exorbitant bank account. On that level, this is about the most mature pop album released this decade, exhibiting a refined sense of craft and a keen sense of purpose, marrying the particular sentiment of a song with the right production. It's hard to call Release an album of its time, since it hardly falls prey to trends, but it's aware of its time -- an album that's proudly out of step with the particulars of hipness, but knows what they constitute, knows what they feel like, knows what modernism means for somebody who's lived their life with the burden of being hip, whose always felt a compulsion to stay on top of things -- and feeling that desire fade as you get older. So, that means that while Release occasionally sings of the new -- synth lines, vocoders, beats, a song designed to respond to Eminem's homophobia (the exquisite "The Night I Fell in Love") -- it's from the vantage of people who have lived through all of this before, and know particulars will pass while the song remains the same. The great thing is, even if this sentiment has been present in previous Pet Shop Boys albums, they have brought the dance-club to the background (partially due to Marr's presence) and have brought the songs to the forefront, resulting in a record that feels like the Pet Shop Boys, even when it doesn't sound like them. And that's a good thing, since it retains their greatest attributes while giving them a new spin, and it makes for the best Pet Shop Boys album in nearly ten years.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 3 disc(s) - 46 track(s)
- Total length: 03:14:35
- Main artists: Pet Shop Boys
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Rhino
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd ℗ 2017 This Compilation Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd
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