Right, onto the new Pet Shop Boys single

Shocking as this may seem, today isn't just the day we became acquainted with The Saturdays' Comic Relief tune. It's also the day the new Pet Shop Boys single had its radio premiere. 'Love etc.' - a very PSB title, that - is the first product of the duo's collaboration with Xenomania, the writing/production team best known for working with Girls Aloud. (Well, second if you count 'The Loving Kind').

Anyway, Neil Tennant has described 'Love etc.' as a "post-lifestyle anthem", a phrase that doesn't really make sense until you hear the song. The message is essentially that the flashy trappings of luxury living - private jets, Beverly Hills mansions, a "chauffeur-driven limousine on call" - aren't what makes life fulfilling. "Call me naive, but I believe that love is free", Tennant sings on the outro. Yup, that's right, this tune's credit crunch appropriate.

Musically, 'Love etc.' is a midtempo electropop shuffle with a call-and-response chorus between - brace yourselves for a technical term - a chanty, manly-sounding choir and the ever angelic Tennant. It's not the group's most immediate single, but it becomes really quite catchy the third or fourth time you hear it. Press play below to judge for yourself:



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