Listen To Pet Shop Boys’ Brand New Track, ‘Cricket Wife’
Pet Shop Boys have shared a new, 10-minute long single called Cricket Wife, which you can listen to below.
The track follows the duo’s 2020 album Hotspot and was released on Friday, 21 May alongside the arrival of their ‘My Beautiful Launderette’ EP to streaming services for the very first time.
Cricket Wife is one side of a two-track single that was shared as part of the band’s Annually 2021, this year’s edition of their yearly annual release. The other side of the single takes the form of a lockdown version of their classic hit West End Girls.
The new track clocks in at 10 minutes long exactly and is laden with orchestral sounds. Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe recorded their parts in their respective homes and the song finds Tennant singing: “Where are my shoes?/ My coat, my hat?/ Just get me out/ I smell a rat.”
The pair were due to hit the road in May 2020 for their Greatest Hits tour but were forced to postpone the dates until 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. They will now perform for their fans next summer as social distancing restrictions continue to put a hold on live music.
The ‘Dreamworld: The Greatest Hits Live’ trek will now begin in Vienna on 12 May, 2022, with UK shows beginning in Manchester a week later.
Elsewhere in Pet Shop Boys news, the duo are also scheduled to tour North America with New Order later this year. Those shows were originally meant to take place last year.
Meanwhile, the band have recently seen a huge increase in streams of their song It’s A Sin thanks to the Channel 4 TV show of the same name. Since the programme first aired in the UK on January 22, the sales and streaming figures for the song have increased by 249 per cent.