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- Summary: Trevor Horn produced the duo's first album in four years, hailed by some critics as a return to their peak 1980's form.
- Record Label: Rhino / Parlophone
- Genre(s): Rock, Dance, Alternative
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Positive: 16 out of 22
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Mixed: 6 out of 22
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Negative: 0 out of 22
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The Pet Shop Boys' best album in over a decade, sitting neatly between their previous career highpoints of Very and Behaviour.
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Fundamental offers pleasure as rewarding as The Magic Mountain or Glenlivet 18--indulgences best enjoyed as you approach the half-century mark, when your imagination is keen to leisured elongations of familiar tropes or newly appreciative of exotic sumptuousness.
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It would be unthinkable to imagine a more pleasurable listen coming along in 2006.
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SpinLike Confessions on a Dance Floor, Fundamental uses squelchy electro-disco grooves that smuggle sly pop-culture commentary. [Aug 2006, p.83]
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"Fundamental" is the sound of the Pet Shop Boys reborn, and mindful of the important role they fill in the pop family.
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Much of it seems strangely blank, neither great nor at all sub-par.
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Mojo[An] underwhelming collection of moderately sweeping, mildly elegant arena pop. [Jun 2006, p.108]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 23 out of 29
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Mixed: 5 out of 29
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Negative: 1 out of 29
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bAug 25, 2006politics+war+humor+heartache+perfect
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mikhailDec 17, 2006Best album of the year.
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Apr 2, 2016
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CliffordFMar 27, 2007
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rottencabbageAug 25, 2006Delightful, campy and endlessly entertaining.
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MisterMacJul 6, 2006
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keelercJul 25, 2006okay; damnation you can dance to. I'm sure this CD is popular in hell. Bleah.
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