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Hotspot - Pet Shop Boys: Review

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Pet Shop Boys are a legendary British dance music duo who have been pumping out hits with semi-regularity since the 80's. The pair have held onto their strongly 80's inspired brand of synth heavy dance music over the years and after a few singles Hotspot  seems like it will be no different. Review By Lavender: Pet Shop Boys have a special place in my heart that stems from their initial run of records. The four albums they dropped from their debut 1986's Please  up to 1990 Behaviour  is more than enough to justify their legend status, but they continue to drop records I enjoy here and there. Their 2012 record Elysium  surprised me with how fresh and catchy it was but since then I haven't truly been impressed with the bands last two albums. I was hoping coming off of the decent Super  in 2016 the band would work their way into some great tunes, but Hotspot  sees them with less inspiration than ever before. The record isn't all bad and there are some places fo