- house, synth-pop
- 9 tracks
- x2
Electric is the twelfth studio album by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys. It was released on 14 July 2013 on the duo's own label, x2, through Kobalt Label Services as the duo's first album since their departure from Parlophone. Electric was the first in a trilogy of albums produced by Stuart Price, followed by Super and Hotspot. The single "Thursday" features a collaboration with English singer and rapper Example.
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Spare, classical in form, character-led and cool.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
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Metacritic 84/100 · AnyDecentMusic? 7.7/10
- AllMusic4/5 ★
- The Daily Telegraph5/5 ★
- The Guardian4/5 ★
- The Independent4/5 ★
- Los Angeles Times3.5/4 ★
- NME8/10
- Pitchfork7/10
- Q4/5 ★
- Rolling Stone3.5/5 ★
- Spin8/10
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Tracks
- 1Axis
- 2Bolshy
- 3Love Is a Bourgeois Construct
- 4Fluorescent
- 5Inside a Dream
- 6The Last to Die
- 7Shouting in the Evening
- 8Thursday
- 9Vocal
About the album
- Artist
- Pet Shop Boys
- Label
- x2
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- HK
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