PET SHOP BOYS

PET SHOP BOYS
BILINGUAL (1996)
320 KBPS

As if emerging from a swanky beach house, The Boys hit a smooth and consistently rich stride on their sixth album. "Discoteca" and "Single" accompany a sophisticated pleasure traveler with Spanish rhythm, "Metamorphosis" recapitulates an introverted man's growing up, while the beautiful "It Always Comes As A Surprise" seems to capture the northerner's amazement at his first night in tropical paradise. The self-referential "Electricity" and proud stances of "Up Against It" and "To Step Aside" show an artistry and intellectual cleverness that never falls out of rhythm, while "Se A Vida E," "Before," and "Saturday Night" celebrate sweetness in life without running aground, as happy anthems so often do, on shallow bromides, cliches, or repetitiveness. The Pet Shop Boys have given us a library of fine albums, and often, even finer remixes, and this inventive and pleasurable album perhaps shows them at their best so far.

1. Discoteca
2. Single
3. Metamorphosis
4. Electricity
5. Se A Vida E (That'S The Way Life Is)
6. It Always Comes As A Surprise
7. A Red Letter Day
8. Up Against It
9. The Survivors
10. Before
11. To Step Aside
12. Saturday Night Forever
Bonus tracks
Remixed
1. Somewhere (Extended Mix)
2. A Red Letter Day (Trouser Enthusiasts' Autoerotic Decapitation Mix)
3. To Step Aside (Brutal Bill Mix)
4. Before (Classic Paradise Mix)
5. The Boy Who Couldn't Keep His Clothes On (International Club Mix)
6. Se A Vida É (Pink Noise Mix)
7. Discoteca (Trouser Enthusiasts' Adventures Beyond The Stellar Empire Mix)