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Today's Shelf Pull: Pet Shop Boys, Nonetheless

Elegance With a Straight Face

Today's Shelf Pull: Pet Shop Boys, Nonetheless. Read Eamon Lane’s story from Kilmorna in Listowel, with the people, records, art or town life behind it.

Some records arrive as if they have been sent ahead by a committee.

Nonetheless arrives with a tie straightened, sunglasses on, and the quiet expression of someone who has already decided the meeting will not run over.

Pet Shop Boys are on the shelf today, and the sleeve is doing that very Pet Shop Boys thing of looking plain until you notice how particular it is. Two black suits. Two pairs of dark glasses. Two faces replaced by a pale flare of light, as if the future has politely declined to be photographed. The title sits small near the bottom, which is exactly where a record puts its name when it knows it does not need to shout across the shop.

The catalogue facts are tidy: Nonetheless, LP, 2024, Electronic shelf, available from Kilmorna at EUR18.95.

On the shelf today

Pet Shop Boys - Nonetheless

LP / Electronic / 2024

EUR18.95 / Available now

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