Nightlife (2017 Remaster)
Pet Shop Boys
Nightlife (2017 Remaster) is the remastered edition of the seventh studio album by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys — Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe — originally released on October 11, 1999 through Parlophone. The remaster was released on July 28, 2017 as the first installment in the duo's landmark Catalogue: 1985–2012 reissue series, which set out to bring all of their Parlophone studio albums up to modern audio standards alongside substantial archival bonus material. The 12-track original album — a darkly orchestrated collaboration with producers Rollo, Craig Armstrong, and David Morales — is presented here in a newly remastered form on 180-gram heavyweight vinyl, and as a standalone digital release. Also available as part of the expanded three-disc Nightlife / Further Listening: 1996–2000 set, the remaster was accompanied by two additional discs of B-sides, demos, and previously unreleased material from the period, including a duet with Elton John ("Song for Guy / Believe," previously only performed on television), and demo versions of "Vampires," "Call Me Old-Fashioned," and "Radiophonic."
The album itself is a loose concept record built around the moods and textures of nightlife — love, loneliness, and the early hours — with a notably cinematic and atmospheric production style that set it apart from the duo's earlier work. Singles "I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give It Any More," "New York City Boy," and "You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk" anchor the tracklist, while the duet with Kylie Minogue on "In Denial" — a confessional song about a gay man in denial about his sexuality — became one of the album's most talked-about tracks. Though Nightlife was the duo's first studio album not to reach the UK top five upon its original release, the 2017 reissue caused it to re-enter the UK Albums Chart at number 29, and the expanded edition was packaged with an extensive booklet in which Tennant and Lowe discuss each song in depth, illustrated with archive photographs, and designed by longtime collaborator Farrow.
Nightlife (2017 Remaster)
Pet Shop Boys
Nightlife (2017 Remaster) is the remastered edition of the seventh studio album by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys — Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe — originally released on October 11, 1999 through Parlophone. The remaster was released on July 28, 2017 as the first installment in the duo's landmark Catalogue: 1985–2012 reissue series, which set out to bring all of their Parlophone studio albums up to modern audio standards alongside substantial archival bonus material. The 12-track original album — a darkly orchestrated collaboration with producers Rollo, Craig Armstrong, and David Morales — is presented here in a newly remastered form on 180-gram heavyweight vinyl, and as a standalone digital release. Also available as part of the expanded three-disc Nightlife / Further Listening: 1996–2000 set, the remaster was accompanied by two additional discs of B-sides, demos, and previously unreleased material from the period, including a duet with Elton John ("Song for Guy / Believe," previously only performed on television), and demo versions of "Vampires," "Call Me Old-Fashioned," and "Radiophonic."
The album itself is a loose concept record built around the moods and textures of nightlife — love, loneliness, and the early hours — with a notably cinematic and atmospheric production style that set it apart from the duo's earlier work. Singles "I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give It Any More," "New York City Boy," and "You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk" anchor the tracklist, while the duet with Kylie Minogue on "In Denial" — a confessional song about a gay man in denial about his sexuality — became one of the album's most talked-about tracks. Though Nightlife was the duo's first studio album not to reach the UK top five upon its original release, the 2017 reissue caused it to re-enter the UK Albums Chart at number 29, and the expanded edition was packaged with an extensive booklet in which Tennant and Lowe discuss each song in depth, illustrated with archive photographs, and designed by longtime collaborator Farrow.