Latest Release

- 14 APR 2023
- Lost - EP
- 5 Songs
- Please (2018 Remaster) · 1986
- Discography: The Complete Singles Collection · 1987
- Discography: The Complete Singles Collection · 1987
- Actually: Further Listening 1987-1988 (2018 Remastered Version) · 1987
- Please: Further Listening 1984-1986 (Deluxe Edition) · 1986
- Discography: The Complete Singles Collection · 1984
- Actually (2018 Remaster) · 1987
- Actually (2018 Remaster) · 1987
- Discography: The Complete Singles Collection · 1987
- Discography: The Complete Singles Collection · 1986
Artist Playlists
- Tennant and Lowe have delivered incisive, wistful synth-pop for over 35 years.
- Synth-pop barely begins to describe their stylistic breadth.
- Coolly restrained synths and out-and-proud club pop.
- Wry, hook-heavy synth-pop with impeccable poise.
- Lean back and relax with some of their mellowest cuts.
Compilations
More To Hear
- Hanuman revisits Pet Shop Boys' synth-heavy smash hit, 'Actually.'
About Pet Shop Boys
The duo of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe have been crafting witty, hooky synth-pop since a chance meeting at a hi-fi shop in 1981. Tennant’s reserved vocals and Lowe’s crisp instrumentation added a sardonic existentialism to New Wave. Their first single, the 1984 chronicle of urban life “West End Girls”, became a minor club hit before being reworked with producer Stephen Hague; the revamped version became an international hit a year later. In the decades that followed, Pet Shop Boys would be revered as one of synth-pop’s most beloved acts, with songs like the storming yet irony-tinged “Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)” and the winking examination of money and love “Rent” crossing over from clubs to mainstream radio. Pet Shop Boys had a publicly coy relationship with queerness; although Tennant, who came out in 1994, eschewed gender-specific language in his lyrics, the duo leaned into camp with gusto, producing and writing for Liza Minnelli’s 1989 pop return Results, giving the Village People’s “Go West” a muscular makeover and scoring a global hit with the feisty Dusty Springfield collaboration “What Have I Done To Deserve This?” Their discography, stretching over four decades, is one of pop’s finest, pairing keen observations with irresistible hooks even as the world around the club changes shape.
- HOMETOWN
- London, England
- FORMED
- 19 August 1981