Pet Shop Boys have compared their new album
to Madonna's early work.
The duo said their upcoming LP Electric
sounds like Madonna's first self-titled record, which was released in 1983.
"The album is meant to be pure
enjoyment," Neil Tennant told Time Out. "We realised that it was
sounding quite early '80s dance, like Madonna's first album. This album has got that '80s
freshness but it still sounds, you know, modern."
The group's new LP - out July 15 - was
executive produced by Stuart Price, who helmed Madonna's 2005 album Confessions
on a Dancefloor. You can read the whole Time Out interview here
Also, the group has debuted the video for their latest single, "Vocal":
This short film has been produced and
directed by the filmmaker and photographer, Joost Vandeburg. He has created it
using authentic amateur film footage shot at various raves in the late 80s,
along with some footage from the Haçienda in Manchester. The video (and the
song) was inspired by the way British youth at this time found its own freedom
with a new culture epitomised by dance music and raves: "It's in the
music/It's in the song/And the feeling of the warmth around us all is so
strong."
"Vocal" will be released as a physical
single in the UK on July 22 and will feature further remixes, which will be
announced soon.
1 comment:
Less like early Madonna, and more like those moments in the 90s when the Brits took hold of House music, shook it up with a smattering of Eurobeat and Techno and batted it back across the pond (I am thinking of the likes of JX, Felix and the Shamen)... Fan-bloody-tastic, in other words! Jx
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