Fabulous and rather surprising return for the British duo, their first for 20 years, and 41 since their debut, with a wry, witty, catchy electro-pop album about how the sci-fi future dream has not quite turned out how it promised. That particularly comes to fore in opener Happy Happy Happy where the utopian dream of “rocket ships and monorails, electricity that never fails” with other space-themed images. David Ball’s synths and Marc Almond’s vocals still hold up with a disco mischief, including even on the darker themed Bruises On All My Illusions, Heart Like Chernobyl (“Oh dear, I feel like North Korea in the winter”), the title track, Nostalgia Machine, the oddball chatter of Nighthawks, the upliftingly escapist Purple Zone with who else but Pet Shop Boys, and another classic torch song in closing New Eden. Out on BMG.
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