Singles & Downloads 8

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Singles & Downloads 8

From Pet Shop Boys to a song about Gillian McKeith, all rigorously tested on our ears

by Thomas H GreenWednesday, 01 December 2010

Pet Shop Boys: Still looking and sounding sharp after all these years

Two lots of abiding electropop royalty, classicist Slovenian techno, an indie band who play electronica, a hyper-synthetic R&B superstar, Irish-Mancunian disco-boogie, "buzzsaw fuzz" meets Phil Spector, Paris-Bordeaux-Alabama-Berlin rock chaos, Welsh psychdelic dreams, a post-dubstep crooner and a novelty song about Gillian McKeith - (almost) all human life is here in Thomas H Green and Joe Muggs's round-up of tracks of interest out to buy now.

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