Pet Shop Boys have shared a pair of remixes for their classic hit Suburbia courtesy of Arthur Baker.
Originally released as the fourth single from the duo’s debut studio album, ‘Please’ (1986), the track became the second UK Top 10 hit for Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe.
Baker remixed the tracks for a US promo LP, but the Club Vocal and Dub Version have remained commercially unavailable until now.
Listen to Suburbia (Arthur Baker’s 1986 Remixes) below.
This week, Pet Shop Boys will release their epic career-spanning singles box set, ‘SMASH’, celebrating 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.
Pet Shop Boys proudly announce the upcoming release of “SMASH – The Singles 1985-2020” – the complete collection of their singles in chronological order. “SMASH" will be released on @Parlophone on June 16th and is available to pre-order now. Link below.https://t.co/4u53B9WOs3 pic.twitter.com/2O6Yc1Lg0J
— Pet Shop Boys (@petshopboys) March 30, 2023
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.
Most recently, the duo released their brand new EP ‘Lost’, featuring four previously unreleased songs dating back to their 2016 album ‘Super’, including The Lost Room, I Will Fall, Skeletons In The Closet and Kaputnik.
Neil Tennant said the tracks were left off the LP “not because we didn’t like them, but because they didn’t fit the album,” explaining: “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.”
Of 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.”
It’s released alongside the 2023 edition of Pet Shop Boys’ ‘Annually’ publication series, which comes as a 64-page hardback book and features journal entries and unseen photos from the first leg of their ‘Dreamworld’ Greatest Hits Tour.
‘Annually 2023’ is out now.
Last year, Pet Shop Boys announced additional dates for the 2023 leg of the 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.
