For Immediate Release:
September 5, 2013

 

Listen To New Pet Shop Boys Single 'Love Is a Bourgeois Construct' (Claptone Vocal Remix)

 

(Toronto, ON) - Pet Shop Boys released their new single 'Love Is a Bourgeois Construct' in Canada & the US this week just ahead of the start of their North American Tour on September 12 in Miami. This is the 2nd single from the British duo's new album 'Electric' (produced by Stuart Price) which was released on July 15th through their own label x2 (via Kobalt Label Services). The group’s first single off the album, 'Vocal,' is currently at number three on the Billboard Dance/Club Play Songs chart.

 

'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 have also released a 'Love is a Bourgeois Construct' remix EP featuring five new full-length remixes of the track by the likes of Dave Aude, Little Boots, the Penelopes and Claptone.

 

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."

 

The track listing for 'Electric' is:

 

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

 

Pet Shop Boys will embark on the 'Electric' North American Tour on September 12th in Miami and it includes 4 Canadian dates in Montreal, Toronto, Windsor and Vancouver. 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 earlier this year. For tickets, please visit:  ticketmaster.ca

 

THE PET SHOP BOYS NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES

12 Sept - The Jackie Gleason Theatre, Miami Beach, USA

13 Sept - Mahaffey Theatre, Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA

14 Sept - Symphony Hall, Atlanda, Georgia, USA

16 Sept - Beacon Theatre, New York, NY USA

17 Sept - Beacon Theatre, New York, NY USA

19 Sept - Music Centre at Strathmore, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

21 Sept - House of Blues, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

22 Sept - Mann Centre for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

24 Sept - Olympia Theatre, Montreal, Canada

25 Sept - Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto, Canada

27 Sept - Caesars Windsor - The Colosseum, Windsor, Canada

28 Sept - Auditorium Theatre, Chicago Illinois, USA

2 Oct - Paramount Theatre, Seattle, Washington, USA

3 Oct - Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver, Canada

4 Oct - Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland, Oregon, USA

5 Oct - Fox Theatre, Oakland, California, USA

8 Oct - Copley Symphony Hall, San Diego, California, USA

11 Oct - Hard Rock Hotel & Casino - The Joint, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

12 Oct - Shrine Auditorium, LA, California, USA

 

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