Pet Shop Boys - credit Eva Pentel Pet Shop Boys – A Man From The Future PET SHOP BOYS A Man From The Future (Parlophone) Mathematician and codebreaker Alan Turing’s contribution to helping Britain defeat the Axis powers in World War II was huge. Sadly he committed suicide in 1954, two years after being prosecuted for his homosexuality. He was eventually pardoned in 2013; too little too late, of course, but in A Man From The Future – an aural tribute to Turing’s codebreaking genius, created in collaboration between iconic electronic pop duo the Pet Shop Boys and Turing biographer Andrew Hodges – will, one hopes, only help to strengthen his legacy. RELATED: Actress Juliet Stevenson narrates his life story over eight tracks, with PSB’s Neil Tennant also providing vocals. He Dreamed Of Machines and AMFTF ’s title track have a hypnotic, and indeed futuristic, elegance to them that only Kraftwerk could possibly match, while Only In His Death has a deeply affective ambience to it that’s present across the album as a whole. words DAVID NOBAKHT KEEP READING:
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