Bilingual (album)

Not to be confused with the album Bilingua by Eithne Ní Uallacháin.

Bilingual
Studio album by
Pet Shop Boys
Released2 September 1996 (1996-09-02)
Recorded1995–1996
Studio
  • Bunk Junk & Genius, Sarm West and Sarm Hook End (London)
  • Axis and Bass Hit (New York City)
  • The State House of Broadcasting and Sound Recording (Moscow)
Genre
Length53:56
LabelParlophone
Producer
Pet Shop Boys chronology
Alternative
(1995) 		Bilingual
(1996) 		Essential
(1998)
Singles from Bilingual
  1. "Before"
    Released: 22 April 1996
  2. "Se a vida é (That's the Way Life Is)"
    Released: 12 August 1996
  3. "Single-Bilingual"
    Released: 11 November 1996
  4. "A Red Letter Day"
    Released: 17 March 1997
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Billboard(favorable)[2]
Entertainment WeeklyB+[3]
The Guardian[4]
NME8/10[5]
Pitchfork5.9/10[6]
Q[7]
Rolling Stone[8]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[9]
Spin8/10[10]
The Village VoiceA−[11]

Bilingual is the sixth studio album by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, released in the United Kingdom on 2 September 1996 by Parlophone and in the United States on 10 September 1996 by Atlantic Records. The album reached number four on the UK Albums Chart, lower than their previous five studio albums which had all reached the top three. It yielded five successful singles, with three of them—"Before", "Se a vida é (That's the Way Life Is)" and "A Red Letter Day"—reaching the UK top 10; the fourth one, the English/Spanish-language composition "Single-Bilingual", peaked within the top 20.

  1. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Bilingual – Pet Shop Boys". AllMusic. Retrieved 30 September 2011.
  2. ^ Verna, Paul (28 September 1996). "Reviews & Previews: Albums" (PDF). Billboard. p. 85. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
  3. ^ Sinclair, Tom (6 September 1996). "Bilingual". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
  4. ^ Sullivan, Caroline (6 September 1996). "Pet Shop Boys: Bilingual (Parlophone)". The Guardian.
  5. ^ "Pet Shop Boys: Bilingual". NME. 31 August 1996. p. 54.
  6. ^ Schreiber, Ryan. "Pet Shop Boys: Bilingual". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 1 July 2001. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
  7. ^ "Pet Shop Boys: Bilingual". Q. No. 121. October 1996. p. 160.
  8. ^ Hoskyns, Barney (31 October 1996). "Pet Shop Boys: Bilingual". Rolling Stone. No. 746. ISSN 0035-791X. Archived from the original on 11 May 2007. Retrieved 30 September 2011.
  9. ^ Hull, Tom (2004). "Pet Shop Boys". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 630–31. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  10. ^ Considine, J. D. (October 1996). "Pet Shop Boys: Bilingual". Spin. Vol. 12, no. 7. pp. 131–132. Retrieved 7 May 2019 – via Google Books.
  11. ^ Christgau, Robert (8 October 1996). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. Retrieved 7 May 2019.