Pet Shop Boys Tease New Track "Fluorescent"

Pet Shop Boys continue to tease their forthcoming 12th album 'Electric', which will be out on July 15 through their own label x2 through Kobalt Label Services.

This time, they have posted a video clip featuring a snippet of  "Fluorescent", the fourth song on the album, and like their previously unveiled track "Axis", it travels more in the club vein.

Check the video below.

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Pet Shop Boys Announce New Album 'Electric' Full Details, Share "Axis" Music Video

Pet Shop Boys have announce they will release their new album titled "Electric" on July 15th, and is the first to appear on their own label x2 through Kobalt Label Services.

Produced by Stuart Price, "Electric" features nine tracks in total – eight brand new songs plus a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s "The last to die" - and has a running length of 50 minutes. The British singer and rapper, Example, performs on one track, "Thursday". The album was recorded in London, Berlin and Los Angeles over the last six months with one track, "Fluorescent", written and recorded within the last month. You can pre-order Electric now on iTunes.

About the new album, Neil and Chris comment: "Our latest album often evolves as a response to our previous album and, whereas 'Elysium' had a reflective mood, 'Electric' is pretty banging! And working with Stuart Price on a studio album is something we have wanted to do for a very long time." 

The band have also revealed the video for "Axis", the album's opening track, which can be purchased online now. The song has been added to our current playlist www.koolrockradio.com. Watch the video below.

Tracklist:

1. Axis
2. Bolshy
3. Love is a bourgeois construct
4. Fluorescent
5. Inside a dream
6. The last to die
7. Shouting in the evening
8. Thursday (featuring Example)
9. Vocal

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Electronic To Re-Issue Debut Album

90′s supergroup Electronic, featuring Bernard Sumner (New Order/Joy Division), Johnny Marr (The Smiths) and Neil Tennant (Pet Shop Boys), will re-released their debut self titled album in an expanded and remastered edition, featuring some previously unreleased tracks.

The reissue will include a newly remastered edition of the original album on one disc, accompanied by a second CD featuring a dozen alternate versions, remixes, edits, B-sides and instrumentals, including the Tennant-sung non-album single "Disappointed" and two versions of the title track to 1999's Twisted Tenderness.

Musing on the group's origins recently, Johnny Marr said: "We were two musicians who wanted to get away from the suffocating politics of the band. At the same time it was OK for duos and DJs and non-groups to make records, and that really appealed to Bernard and me. We saw ourselves more in the tradition of David Byrne and Brian Eno, with a lot of technotronics and FX, and Kraftwerk was a very important touchstone for Bernard. So the times were perfect because it was all right to make records with machines, and not have to be four guys stood up against a wall."

The new edition of 'Electronic' will be released on April 8th. The Tracklisting is as follows:

CD 1 
01. Idiot Country (2012 - Remaster)
02. Reality (2012 - Remaster)
03. Tighten Up (2012 - Remaster)
04. The Patience Of A Saint (2012 - Remaster)
05. Getting Away With It (2012 - Remaster)
06. Gangster (2012 - Remaster)
07. Soviet (2012 - Remaster)
08. Get The Message (2012 - Remaster)
09. Try All You Want (2012 - Remaster)
10. Some Distant Memory (2012 - Remaster)
11. Feel Every Beat (2012 - Remaster)

CD 2
01. Disappointed (Stephen Hague 7” Inch Version)
02. Second To None (Edit) *
03. Lean To The Inside (Edit) *
04. Twisted Tenderness (Guitar / Vocal Mix) *
05. Idiot Country Two (12” Version)
06. Free Will (Edit) *
07. Until The End Of Time (Edit) *
08. Feel Every Beat (Edit) *
09. Getting Away With It (Instrumental)
10. Turning Point (Edit)
11. Visit Me (Edit) *
12. Twisted Tenderness” (Instrumental) *

* Previously unreleased