The key to the Pet Shop Boys lies in their unique emotional register: both vulnerable and indestructible, melancholy yet cucumber-cool. And it's on full display on these under-the-radar tracks. They dive into love's contradictions on the self-effacing "I Want to Wake Up", while "It's Alright", from the same period, flips grim politics into an ode to the power of music. They're particularly devastating in the all-out heartbreaker "Love Is a Catastrophe".