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May 3, 2024There's no fat, no excess, so the craft that services the emotion is difficult to deny.
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Apr 26, 2024Like every previous Pet Shop Boys album, Nonetheless is clever, fun, and at times very touching.
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Apr 26, 2024Essentially, there are three types of Pet Shop Boys albums: life-changing, great and OK. This one’s great.
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Apr 25, 2024Nonetheless shows the duo pulling themselves up to full songwriting height, not just forging on, but flourishing. [Jun 2024, p.87]
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Apr 25, 2024There’s nothing revolutionary about this very solid release from a kitemarked institution of an act. But Nonetheless proves that the Pets have still got the brains, still got the hooks. And their canny cultural commentary remains on the money.
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Apr 25, 2024Nonetheless feels airy and welcoming, qualities that have sometimes eluded its more recent predecessors, it resonates emotionally in ways that befit elder statesmen who can look to the future while comfortably acknowledging the past.
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Apr 25, 2024Taken as a whole, this is an utterly brilliant, dependably polished listen, and one that is unquestionably up there with the best moments in this duo’s storied career.
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Apr 25, 2024One of the best Pet Shop Boys albums in years.
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Apr 25, 2024Marrying the street level to the grandiose was always the Pet Shop Boys’ MO from the start, and over forty years into the career, ‘Nonetheless’ is the sublime sound of pop’s standard-bearers continuing to hone their craft.
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UncutApr 26, 2024There’s acreaky Sunset Boulevard synth-pop air of nostalgia to much of Nonetheless, but just when you’re ready to dismiss it, they pull out “Love Is The Law”, adream collaboration between WH Auden and John Barry, which shoots straight into the Top 10 of their indisputably greatest songs. [Jun 2024, p.37]
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Apr 25, 2024Their fifteenth album Nonetheless doesn’t measure up to the friskier mid-’10 releases Electric and Super – the melodies are often wan and Neil Tennant’s delivery is uncharacteristically stilted – but the Boys are old friends. They amuse and move us. Their foibles are familiar.
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