The Opposite of No

Yes – the Pet Shop Boys are back, and Yes is the name of their new album, their 10th, which will be released stateside on April 21.

Of the album’s title, keyboardist Chris Lowe said, “We thought that [it] just kind of summed up the theme of the album. It’s a positive, upbeat, euphoric pop album.”

Yes has two distinct parts: an upbeat introduction and a more mysterious end.

“Love, etc.” is the album’s first track and currently No. 2 on the Billboard Hot Dance Singles Sales chart. It is a social statement about how money, shopping, and celebrity don’t necessarily bring happiness, while the third track, “Beautiful People,” imagines that it must be great to have wealth and fame.

“At the end of the day, it’s an old-fashioned sentiment, but love is more important, really,” Lowe said of “Love, etc.”

“The Way It Used to Be” is a favorite track for both Boys. It charts a relationship from its romantic beginning to its melancholic end, wondering, “what is left of love” and longing to “leave our promises behind / rewind and try again.”

With all this talk of love, singer Neil Tennant is private about his own love life. As far as love in the album goes, though, “Some of it’s real, and some imagination; some of it’s memory,” he said.

Yes – I’m so gonna get Yes.

Photo: CNN.com.