Pet Shop Boys have unveiled their brand new single
‘Dreamland’, featuring Years & Years. The single was written by Chris Lowe
and Neil Tennant with Olly Alexander who also duets with Neil Tennant on the
track. The song was written in London and produced by Stuart Price at Hansa
Studios in Berlin and The Record Plant in Los Angeles. The single is the first
new music by Pet Shop Boys since their acclaimed ‘Agenda’ EP, released in
February, and the first piece of music to be released from their forthcoming new
studio album.
On 15 September PSB headlined the BBC Radio 2 Live in
Hyde Park concert in London, their only UK show this year. Musik, the cabaret
show starring Frances Barber, written by Jonathan Harvey with six songs by
Tennant and Lowe, recently had a critically-acclaimed, sold-out run in
Edinburgh before transferring to London for five further performances. The
Jonathan Harvey/Pet Shop Boys musical Closer to Heaven was also revived for two
months this summer at the Above The Stag theatre in Vauxhall, attracting
sold-out audiences every night. Tennant and Lowe have also written music for a
stage version of Hanif Kureishi’s My Beautiful Laundrette which premieres at
the Leicester Curve theatre later this month.
Pet Shop Boys commented: “We have had a busy year
finishing our new album with Stuart Price and writing songs for Musik and My
Beautiful Laundrette. We’ve also toured the Far East and are looking forward to
bringing our biggest hits together in a new tour next year. It’s so exciting
that our new single is a collaboration with Years & Years, one of the most
original and successful bands to emerge this decade, and we really enjoyed
writing and recording it with Olly Alexander.”
Pet Shop Boys have recently completed work on their
latest studio album – the third part of a Stuart Price-produced trilogy which
started with ‘Electric’ in 2013 and continued with ‘Super’ in 2016. The album
will be released 24 January. Further details to follow.
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