This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
On the cover art and inside the booklet, Pet Shop Boys are all dolled up with spiky blond wigs, dark glasses and trendy threads. But fear not, fans; that’s as far as the makeover goes.
Nightlife, the duo’s latest dance-pop outing, finds Neil Tennant and Christopher Lowe unspooling more of their synth-driven dance-pop grooves, full of wailing divas, thumping beatboxes and glitter-ball production. As for the vaguely gothy new look, well, it seems to have something to do with the lyrics, which seem preoccupied with dark topics — emotional vampires, gays in denial, people who only say they love you when you’re drunk. They may love the nightlife, but now it seems Pet Shop Boys know there’s got to be a mourning after.
