Pitchfork

The Pet Shop Boys don't really need to keep releasing new music; the icily fey British synthpop pioneers have already released a couple discs' worth of absolute classics. But they're still going, and Yes, their 10th studio album, will be out via Parlophone/EMI on March 23 in Europe (no U.S. release date yet). Xenomania, the British production team behind big-in-England hits from the likes of the Sugababes and Girls Aloud, produced the whole thing and co-wrote three tracks ("Love Etc", "More Than a Dream", "The Way It Used to Be") with Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe.

But the duo has also enlisted a couple more indie-leaning collaborators: Smiths/Modest Mouse/Cribs guitarist Johnny Marr, who has played on a number of past Pet Shop Boys tracks and was in the supergroup Electronic with Tennant, lends his luminous axework to a few tracks, and Final Fantasy's Owen Pallett arranged the strings on two songs, "Beautiful People" and "Legacy".

"Love Etc", the first single, will be out March 16.

Yes:

01 Love Etc
02 All Over the World
03 Beautiful People
04 Did You See Me Coming?
05 Vulnerable
06 More Than a Dream
07 Building a Wall
08 King of Rome
09 Pandemonium
10 The Way It Used to Be
11 Legacy