Pet Sounds

The best pop comeback album of the year has arrived. Just when you thought Mozzer would clinch the title with his superb return to form, Ringleader of the Tormentors, messrs Tennant and Lowe - aka The Pet Shop Boys - have beaten Stephen Patrick (probably using their funny pointed hats) by releasing their best record since 1990's melancholy classic, Behaviour.
Fundamental, the Pet Shop Boys ninth studio album, is a masterclass in pop perfection - Debussy to a disco beat. Produced by '80s music maestro, Trevor 'Buggles' Horn, it's funny, sad, moving, camp, highly danceable and, er, completely and utterly gay - brilliant!
There are HI-NRG synth romps (new New Order influenced single Minimal and The Sodom and Gomorrah Show), Kraftwerk electro (Psychological), political Euro-pop tunes (Integral and I'm With Stupid) and plenty of overblown, dramatic ballads - the superb orchestral show-stopper, Numb, was written by US soft rock queen Diane Warren and turned down by Aerosmith. How cool is that? I'm going to be domino dancing all week!


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