Pet Shop Boys – Elysium: Further Listening 2011 - 2012 2CD

Pet Shop Boys – Elysium: Further Listening 2011 - 2012

Elysium was released in 2012 and revealed an evolution in the Pet Shop Boys' sound and musical development. The composition process began when the Pet Shop Boys were on tour with Take That, and some tracks were even written in 2008.

The album was produced jointly by the Pet Shop Boys and Andrew Dawson, who had worked extensively as a sound engineer on Kanye West's album "808s & Heartbreaks" - an album that Neil Tennant was "slightly obsessed" with at the time. The dark atmosphere in the lyrics of Elysium is reflected in the sound of the album.

Neil Tennant: "It's very 'deep' in sound on the one hand - it's got a lot of sub-bass - but it's also deep in terms of the subject matter and the way it's phrased. But I think it's the Pet Shop Boys' most beautiful album."

The "Further Listening" album for the Elysium re-issue contains previously unreleased demos with tracks such as "Vocal", "She Pops" and "In Slow Motion" as well as PSB mixes and remixes of "Leaving" and "Memory Of The Future".

Tracklist:
CD1
1. Leaving
2. Invisible
3. Winner
4. Your Early Stuff
5. A Face Like That
6. Breathing Space
7. Ego Music
8. Hold on
9. Give It a Go
10. Memory of the Future
11. Everything Means Something
12. Requiem in Denim and Leopardskin

CD2
1. Vocal (Demo)
2. She Pops
3. Inside (2017 Remastered Version)
4. In Slow motion (Demo)
5. Listening
6. Hell
7. The Way Through the Woods (Long Version)
8. I Started a Joke
9. In His Imagination
10. Leaving (Believe In PSB Remix)
11. Leaving (Side By Side Remix)
12. Leaving (Freedom Remix)
13. Memory of the Future (New Single Mix)

Label: Parlophone
Released: 2012/2017