Pet Shop Boys have released their brand new EP ‘Lost’.
The duo’s latest collection features four previously unreleased songs recorded for their 2016 album ‘Super’, including The Lost Room, I Will Fall, Skeletons In The Closet and Kaputnik,
Also featured as a digital exclusive is the bonus track Living In The Past.
Speaking about the collection, Neil Tennant revealed the tracks were left off the band’s 13th album “not because we didn’t like them, but because they didn’t fit the album”.
“They all sit together quite well, production-wise, they’re all super-electronic,” he said in an announcement. “Some of them are sort of relevant to the world at the moment.”
Explaining the title of the collection, he continued: “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.”
CD editions of ‘Lost’ come packaged with the 2023 edition of Pet Shop Boys’ ‘Annually’ publication; a 64-page hardback book, featuring journal entries and unseen photos from the first leg of their ‘Dreamworld’ greatest hits tour.
Listen to ‘Lost’ below.
Pet Shop Boys recently announced ‘SMASH – The Singles 1985-2020’, an epic, career-spanning box set that celebrates the duo’s 35+-year career with 55 of their biggest hits presented across formats.
Available as a 3CD box set, 6LP vinyl box set and digitally, the collection is also offered as two limited edition formats via Pet Shop Boys’ store: 6LP white vinyl box set and 3-cassette box set. Additionally, a 3CD+2Blu-Ray edition will also be released and features the complete video collection of the singles.
“As we start work on a new album, and later this year continue our ‘Dreamworld’ Greatest Hits Tour, it seems like a good time to take stock and bring together every single we’ve released,” said Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe.
‘SMASH – The Singles 1985-2020’ is out June 16 via Parlophone and available to pre-order now.
News of the box set comes after Pet Shop Boys announced they’d have started work on the follow-up to their 2020 album ‘Hotspot’, this time enlisting producer James Ford for their latest project.
“First day of recording the new album with producer @jamesellisford! #PetText,” they penned, alongside a snap of various synthesisers and recording equipment.
Before then, Pet Shop Boys will embark on the 2023 leg of their ‘Dreamworld’ greatest hits tour, with new shows kicking off in Rome on June 13, ahead of stops in Dublin, Brighton, Paris, Helsinki, Copenhagen and Gothenburg.
They sit alongside previously-announced dates in London, Aberdeen, Liverpool and Leeds.
Tickets are on general sale now.
