Editor’s Note: The Albumism staff has selected what we believe to be the 110 Best Albums of the 2010s, representing a varied cross-section of artists, genres, and styles. Click “Next Album” below to explore each album in the list or for easier navigation, view the full introduction & album index here.
PET SHOP BOYS | Electric
x2 (2013)
Selected by Mark J. Marraccini
Twenty-seven years after their first album Please (1986) was released, iconic UK duo Pet Shop Boys proved they still wanted to birth blissful dance pop with 2013’s throbbing Electric. Every single track on this superbly smart and sexy collection—even their cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “The Last To Die”—makes you want to dance; living and writing in decadent Berlin for the album was obviously time and money well spent. With Madonna’s Confessions on a Dance Floor producer Stuart Price at the helm, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe sounded completely reborn after 2012’s ho-hum Elysium, shaking off some late-career navel-gazing in favor of, once again, mixing the erudite with the euphoric on another spectacular PSB offering.
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