Nightlife (Nightlife - Pet Shop Boys)

Member Name: davepridd

Product:	Nightlife - Pet Shop Boys
Date:	06/07/00 (10 review reads)
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Advantages: Great arrangement, songs

Disadvantages: Not much

This is the Pet Shop Boys most recent album and, in my opinion, one of their best. As usual, even the up-tempo songs have elements of sadness in them, thanks to Neil Tennant's voice, and the overall feel is quite melancholy which is unusual for such a 'pop' album.

Chris Lowe's keyboards sound fantastic throughout and he is clearly very talented, but on this album there are also orchestral arrangements on nearly every track which are of a very high standard as they were written by Craig Armstrong who was responsible for string arrangement on Suede's 'Coming Up' album.

Despite getting older, the group are still very much in step with the fashions of music, with the opening tracks sounding something like club anthems. There are several duets on the album, with 'Happiness is an option' showing off Sylvia Mason-James' excellent voice. Less successful is 'In denial' which is a good song ruined by bad lyrics and Kylie Minogue's flat and expressionless performance.

Probably the highlight is the single 'New York City boy', which, while it is camp beyond belief, is very catchy and you will find yourself playing it over and over again.

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