Here’s a belated preview for Pet Shop Boys, who are back with a new album Nevertheless in a couple of months, heralded by Loneliness, a nice but fairly dull lead single which reminds me a bit of 2012’s Winner (although that had some good b-sides and remixes, which doesn’t seem to be true this time). The one positive this time around is the video, which is a kind of post-industrial reworking of Domino Dancing, but even that makes it sound as though there’s a bit of recycling going on here. It looks as though it’s filmed in Sheffield, the spiritual home of this blog, which is another point in its favour.
Pet Shop Boys have had a good track record with lead singles in the last decade or so, but hopefully there are enough surprises on the album to make this the exception. Let’s see.
Music for stowaways 