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Release

Release
Pet Shop Boys

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Track Listing

Disc 1:

  1. Home And Dry
  2. I Get Along
  3. Birthday Boy
  4. London
  5. E-Mail
  6. The Samurai In Autumn
  7. Love Is A Catastrophe
  8. Here
  9. The Night I Fell In Love
  10. You Choose

Disc 2:

  1. Home And Dry (Ambient Mix)
  2. Sexy Northerner
  3. Always
  4. Closer To Heaven (Slow Version)
  5. Nightlife
  6. Friendly Fire
  7. Break 4 Love (Radio Edit)
  8. Home And Dry (2nd Trance Mix)
  9. Home And Dry (Video)

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #147650 in Music
  • Released on: 2002-04-22
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Formats: Limited Edition, Import

Customer Reviews

The best international Release5
For anyone still interested in PSB, and for those who appreciate PSB's usually superlative b-sides, this US edition of "Release" is absolutely the one to go for: the packaging is excellent, and the bonus disc is worth the extra pennies.
The album seems to have divided listeners; I think it's a stronger and more coherent work than "Nightlife", which didn't appear to have much of a reason for its existence apart from the deliberately outrageous costumes. While it's true "Release" is a little soporific compared to previous albums, a couple of tracks are stupendously rich both musically and sonically: "London" has an absolutely ecstatic chorus and features superb orchestration and effects, and deserves a single release (it's the album's only track cowritten and produced by Chris Zippel: Boys, do some more work with him!); "The Samurai in Autumn" is a simple riff, beautifully produced, that initially seems like a throwaway yet grows better with each listen. The only really weak track is "Home and Dry", another in a growing list of mediocre PSB singles.
The bonus disc is a bit of a dog's breakfast, but contains the b-sides to "Home and Dry" as well as a middling trance mix of "Home and Dry" and a couple of outtakes from "Nightlife" (the song "Nightlife" must rate as one of their oddest, with Tennant's helium vocals); you get shortchanged with the US radio mix of "Break 4 Love", though, which sounds much better in any of its remix incarnations. "Friendly Fire" might be popular with those who like their PSB 'serious', but to me is the kind of vain, cringe-making ballad Neil Tennant is prone to write in lapses of taste.