question . In addition to the studio albums , they 've written a musical , `` Closer to Heaven , '' and a soundtrack to Sergei Eisenstein 's 1925 silent film classic , `` The Battleship Potemkin . '' For `` Yes , '' the Pet Shop Boys worked with Xenomania , a production group known for collaborating with Cher and other pop stars . Xenomania co-wrote three of the tracks on `` Yes '' with Lowe and vocalist Neil Tennant , who write most of their own songs . Watch the official video for `` Love , etc. '' on YouTube The Pet Shop Boys , who recently won an award for outstanding contribution to music at the 2009 BRIT Awards , `` felt very much at home '' at the house outside London , England , that Xenomania has devoted entirely to music , Tennant said . Every bedroom has a studio , and bands hang around downstairs waiting to record amid the sounds of instruments , record mixing and talking . `` You can hear this cacophony of music all day long , '' he said . Like a vinyl record , `` Yes '' is divided
-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Twenty-five years after the hit single `` West End Girls , '' can the Pet Shop Boys pull off songs that make you want to dance like it 's 1984 , but still reflect a social consciousness of 2009 ? Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe , shown at the BRIT Awards in February , are releasing their 10th studio album . The answer is the title of their latest album : `` Yes . '' The British duo will release their 10th studio album on April 21 in the United States through Astralwerks . `` Yes '' has been out in the United Kingdom through Parlophone/EMI since March 23 , and entered the Billboard UK albums chart at No. 4 . `` We thought that ` Yes ' just kind of summed up the theme of the album . It 's a positive , upbeat , euphoric pop album , '' keyboardist Chris Lowe said . `` It 's almost an answer to the question , ` Is that the Pet Shop Boys ? ' ` Yes ! ' '' Given how many different projects the duo has been involved with , it 's a valid