The Pet Shop Boys have revealed details and the album track listing for their highly anticipated upcoming full length studio release Elysium. Check out the tracks, album artwork, and highlights from the official press release below.
These guys are so hit or miss with me. I know what they’re capable of as they only wrote one of the greatest POP songs of all time for Girls Aloud titled “The Loving Kind”.
The track listing for Elysium is:
- Leaving
- Invisible
- Winner
- Your early stuff
- A face like that
- Breathing space
- Ego music
- Hold on
- Give it a go
- Memory of the future
- Everything means something
- Requiem in denim and leopardskin
The album will be available in standard CD, digital download, 12” vinyl and limited edition double CD where the bonus disc contains an instrumental mix of the album. The album has also received special mastering for the iTunes version.
Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe recorded ‘Elysium’ earlier this year in Los Angeles, the first time they have recorded an album in America. They co-produced the record with US producer Andrew Dawson, who has won three Grammys for his work on Kanye West’s albums.
‘Elysium’ features twelve new songs which display a warm, deep electronic sound, and includes orchestral arrangements by Joachim Horsley, Andrew Dawson and Ben Leathers. Backing vocals are provided on many of the tracks by veteran singers Oren, Maxine and Julie Waters (whose long career spans sessions with The Jackson Five to Adele), and singer/songwriter James Fauntleroy.
Pet Shop Boys said: “It was inspiring to make an album in Los Angeles, and to work with a producer from a different musical genre, who has brought a new dimension to our music”.
