PET SHOP BOYS

PET SHOP BOYS
INTROSPECTIVE (1988)
REMASTER
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This is an album including 6 songs but feeling an eternity of pure joy and enthuasism. Opening track Left To My Open Devices should be an anthem in showing how everything in the kitchen sink may work so fittingly...from party animals to Debussy to nasal, rap-like singing to high-backvocals to strings to drum programming. It is a joyful dazzling experience of 6-minute pop indulgence.
The rest is not so different but things go suberp again in their own rendition of "I'm not Scared" in which Neil renders one of his most heart wrenching inquiries into a lying, non-faithful, elusive love, to whom he challenges and invites her/ him to fight against those "dogs"...but as usual with PSB, relations are not that eternally happy moments.
The house club version of Always On My Mind strikes a different chord with a nice interpretation, fully swelling into the majestic and piercing high energy progress of the wonderful single version.
Another hidden gem is a former B side, I want a Dog which is specially remixed by Knuckle for the album, which harbours joyful piano moments.
Introspective is the ultimate commercial-pop combination in Pet Shop Boys' oeuvre, closing the circle that started with Please and peaked in Actually, which showcases Boys' brilliance how pop is done, before the duo sadly moved into more experimental waters.
One of the most glorious pop albums of all time, Introspective is ten times the price its tag bears...more accurately, it is priceless.

1. Left to My Own Devices
2. I Want a Dog
3. Domino Dancing
4. I'm Not Scared
5. Always on My Mind/In My House
6. It's Alright