Video: Pet Shop Boys - The Way It Used To Be (NEW SONG 2009)

Eighteen-year-old Xenomania protege Alex Gardner blogged last Friday that the music video for his debut single "I'm Not Mad" is set to premiere this week. While we wait for that epic—which looks to contain a bit of funhouse mirror action —we've already bent an ear toward the young Scottish singer-songwriter's dreamy new tune "Heartbeak." Have a listen after the jump. Alex Gardner - Heartbreak Quite simply, this sounds like Xenomania's Brian Higgins in peak form, production-wise. Alex himself is also giving off a bit of [...]

I'm not referring the Yes, the new album ( out this week, get it ), which is delightful, but the Best Thing Ever is a track on the album called The Way It Used To Be ' or 'The way it used to be' if you are a PSB punctuation pedant. It's low key, grown-up, sophisticated, crammed with hooks and is a co-write/produce with Xenomania. According to the commentary, they imagined it as a duet with Tina Turner no less. Unfortunately, I've just read the lyrics and am most disappointed to learn that Neil sings [...]