Launch.com interview
Launch.com - 2002 It's up there with Bob Dylan going electric in the shock stakes. On their new album, Release, the Pet Shop Boys--high priests of the synthesizer, leading purveyors of British electro-dance-pop these past 18 years--have embraced guitars. Not sampled/synthesized guitar sounds, but real, organic, wood-and-string, plucked-by-Neil-Tennant, replucked-by-former-Smiths-axeman-Johnny-Marr guitars. The critics are divided--"crap," says one; "gorgeous," says another. The Pet Shop Boys smile at the fuss they've caused. So what's going on? Is it the...