Pet Shop Boys are releasing new music next month. It will be their first release since 2024. But the duo’s new album, A Man From the Future, is far more than a collection of songs. It’s an audio/musical biography built around the life and death of the renowned Alan Turing.
Created in collaboration with Andrew Hodges, the biographer for the pioneering British mathematician and cryptanalyst, the album explores the life, death, and influence of the man who helped lay the foundations of modern computing.
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View this post on InstagramAcross eight chapters, the guys behind chart-topping synth-pop anthems like “West End Girls” and “It’s a Sin” combine electronic and orchestral music, spoken word, and narration to tell Turing’s life story. The project begins with his childhood and school days, and moves through his time at Cambridge University, his sexuality, his contributions during WWII, his work in computing, his trial, and his death in 1954.
“Our motive in creating this work was to make a musical memorial to Alan Turing, who gave so much to his country and the world and was rewarded for it by being prosecuted for his sexuality,” Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe said in a press release.
“Alan made a massive contribution to the defeat of Germany in World War II and was a pioneer of computing, imagining a world with intelligent computers,” they added. “He also looked forward to a time when being gay would be accepted as normal. In both his professional and private lives, he was ahead of his time.”
With music written by Pet Shop Boys, the new album also features string arrangements composed by Sven Helbig and performed by the Manchester Camerata Octet, as well as the choir from Manchester Grammar School and narration spoken by Juliet Stevenson from Hodges’ book Alan Turing: The Enigma.
‘A Man From the Future’ Tracklist
“Natural Wonders Every Child Should Know” “He Dreamed of Machines” “The Enigma” “Other Ranks” “The Memory and the Control” “The Trial” “Only in His Death” “A Man From the Future”Pet Shop Boys originally performed A Man From the Future at the BBC Proms at London’s Royal Albert Hall in 2014, accompanied by the BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Singers, and Stevenson. The work has since been revised and rearranged for this new recording.
The album news follows the run of Obscure live shows Pet Shop Boys performed earlier this year. The five-night London residency took place April 6 to 10 at the Electric Ballroom, with the duo performing non-single album tracks, B-sides, and fan favorites, including several songs they had never performed live before.
According to NME, the shows featured first-ever live performances of 1986’s “Jack the Lad,” 2012’s “After the Event,” 1996’s “Hit and Miss,” 2002’s “Always,” 2020’s “New Boy,” 2009’s “King of Rome,” 2024’s “Love Is the Law,” 2006’s “The Performance of My Life” and the previously unreleased “A Dream of a Better Tomorrow,” among others.
A Parlophone Records release, A Man From the Future arrives Oct. 9 and is available now for preorder.
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