(X2)Nostalgia is a powerful tool in today’s music market,selling things back to their original markets in repackaged form, pulling in later adopters along the way. Into this fray of reformations and homages drops a new album from the doggedly evergreen Pet Shop Boys. It arrives on the back of a single, or The Pop Kids,that trades tough on warm, fuzzy feelings for clublands of yore – the 90s to be precise – and a symposium on their work at Edinburgh University, or which recently sought to endow The Pet Shops Boys’ three-decade marriage of art to pop with the kind of intellectual admire afforded to the likes of Bowie. (Sample lecture: “Between revivalism and survivalism: the Pet Shop Boys New York City Boy,disco pastiche and the haunting of Aids”.)Twenty-something sympathises with London’s young – no hope of a mortgage, despite working all hours for a startupContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com