Behavior - Pet Shop Boys

The Pet Shop Boys fourth album and the follow-up to the heavily dance-orientated 'Introspective', 'Behaviour' is the Pet Shop Boys employing a more subtle twist, a delicate palette of sounds infinitely pleasing to the ear. The whole album is an immaculate unsion of Neil Tennant's exquisitie lyrics to the unique dance styles of the Pet Shop Boys. But - as with no other of their albums - the tone of Behaviour is notably calm, subtle and smooth. Though 'Being Boring' has the typically depressive Pet Shop Boys undertones, other tracks are a little more positive, notably "How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously?" and "The End Of The World." ...  Read the complete review

The question is what do we expect of The Pet Shop Boys? We expect wry observation, deadpan humour; a studied, wry English, cool, ground breaking dance mixes, and maybe a change to that moodier atmosphere to balance it out nicely. While this combination has served them well In the past and has maintained them as virtually the perfect pop group, It seems on the evidence of ‘Behaviour’ that they have taken a different turning. The last album, ‘Introspective’ was (Ironically, of course) sparkling, dramatic uplifting. In comparison, Neil and Chris are now seriously contemplating their navels. If It wasn’t for that ...  Read the complete review