Remember those days, the early 90's? sings Neil Tennant in The Pop Kids. And or! If only because Tennant and synthesizer wizard Chris Lowe were in from one day to the next in the favor of the Dutch taste police. Before that, the Pet Shop Boys were actually dismissed as pop kids, although Tennant was certainly no longer 'twenty-something' at the time of early squatters like It's A Sin. He is now
… sixty-something, but the utterly English singer still gets away effortlessly with lyrics such as 'Look at me, I'm just so groovy' and 'Before the morning comes, we're gonna burn this disco down' . Or what about the ridiculously catchy chorus of opener Happiness, which you can still sing along during the first turn? With their thirteenth studio album - again with an ultra-short title to good use - the Pet Shop Boys prove to have become (living) timeless. (RME)more
