Pet Shop Boys will share four previously unreleased songs in April as part of their latest album Annually.
The 2023 edition will be released as a 64-page hardcover edition with diary entries and unpublished photos from the first leg of the Dreamworld Greatest Hits tour, which began last year and will continue in 2023.
Also included is a four-track CD called “Lost”, which includes four songs recorded in 2015 during the sessions for the band’s “Super” album. It will be released on April 15.
According to Neil Tennant (from a series of tweets on the band’s official account), tracks titled “The Lost Room”, “I Will Fall”, “Skeletons In The Closet” and “Kaputnik” were excluded from “Super”. not because we didn’t like them, but because they didn’t fit the album.”
Tennant added that they are now recording an EP together because “they all fit together pretty well in terms of production, they’re all super electronic” and “some of them are kind of relevant to the world at the moment.”
Regarding ‘The Lost Room’, the quasi-title track of the EP, Tennant added, “It also seems to represent something more, philosophical or political, where there have been times lately when the world has felt a little lost in terms of the direction it’s moving in.”
The EP takes its title “Lost” from the first song, “The lost room”, but “it also seems to represent a sort of larger, philosophical or political point, where there've been times recently where the world feels a bit lost in terms of the direction it's going in.”
— Pet Shop Boys (@petshopboys) January 23, 2023
The “Lost” CD EP and the 2023 edition of “Annually” will be released on April 15th and can be pre-ordered at the link below.https://t.co/NjNQToK28m
— Pet Shop Boys (@petshopboys) January 23, 2023
Pet Shop Boys recently announced new dates for the “Dreamworld: The Greatest Hits Live” tour in the UK and Europe.
The tour will begin in Rome on June 13, 2023 with additional stops in Dublin, Paris, Helsinki and Copenhagen, and will end in Gothenburg on July 9.
The new dates also include an additional UK show in Brighton on June 26, while previously announced concerts include OVO Arena Wembley on June 17 with follow-up concerts in Aberdeen, Liverpool and Leeds.
UK tour dates have already gone on sale from here and you can see the full list of dates below.
JUNE 2023
13 – Auditorium Parco della Musica Cavea, Rome, Italy
15 – L’Olympia, Paris, France
17 – OVO Arena Wembley, London, UK
19 – 3Arena, Dublin, Ireland
21 – P&J Live, Aberdeen, UK
23 – M&S Bank Arena, Liverpool, UK
24 – First Direct Arena, Leeds, UK
26 – Brighton Centre, UK
JULY 2023
1 – Lanxess Arena, Cologne, Germany
4 – Helsinki Ice Hall, Finland
7 – Royal Arena, Copenhagen, Denmark
9 – Scandinavium, Gothenburg, Sweden
Elsewhere, the band’s rare 2003 CD became one of the most expensive ever sold on Discogs. «Pop Art: The Hits — 5 Songs From Our History” was released on Parlophone exclusively in Japan two decades ago in an edition of 25 copies.
The CD contains some of the band’s best and most loved tracks from their entire career, including “West End Girls” and “Always On My Mind”. It was sold on the platform for US$ 2309.15 (1,870 pounds).
