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15th,

On July
Pet Shop Boys return in triumphant form with their new studio album ‘Electric’, the first
to appear on their own label x2. Pet Shop Boys will embark on the ‘Electric’ tour beginning in May,
arriving in Toronto on September 25. The tour is created in collaboration with Es Devlin (creative director/
designer) and Lynne Page (stage director/choreographer), and has already received rave reviews when it
debuted in Mexico in March.

In March this year, a teaser video for ‘Electric’ appeared online. The accompanying music, ‘Axis’, which
is the album’s opening track, is now available in full online and is here accompanied by a video: http://
smarturl.it/psbaxisvideo. A Boys Noize remix of the track will follow.

‘Electric’ features nine tracks in total – eight brand new Pet Shop Boys’ songs plus a cover of Bruce
Springsteen’s ‘The last to die’. The result is as uncompromising a collection of dance anthems as Pet
Shop Boys have ever made.

Pet Shop Boys said: “’Electric’ is very much set on the dance floor. 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”.

Stuart Price said: "Making 'Electric' was an exciting experience. We recorded it between Berlin,
London and Los Angeles using various techniques between old school synth and drum machine
programming and new school computer mangling. For me it was a chance to work with two people
who shaped so much of my musical taste, yet who keep on pushing farther in both a natural and
unexpected fashion. 'Disco' (from 1986) was an album that always spoke to me because it blended song
arrangements with dance floor mixes, and that is what 'Electric' felt like to make. Allowing songs to be
full length without considering the pop rules, disregarding classic structures and instead just working
instinctively on what was fun and danceable."

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