Pet Shop Boys have unveiled their brand new single ‘Dreamland’, featuring Years & Years. The single was written by Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant with Olly Alexander who also duets with Neil Tennant on the track.

The song was written in London and produced by Stuart Price at Hansa Studios in Berlin and The Record Plant in Los Angeles. The single is the first new music by Pet Shop Boys since their acclaimed Agenda EP, released in February, and the first piece of music to be released from their forthcoming new studio album.

The duo has also announced seven UK shows to open their first-ever greatest hits tour – Dreamworld: The Greatest Hits Live – in May/June 2020. Beginning on Thursday May 28 at London’s O2, the tour will see PSB perform at arenas across the country, ending at Glasgow’s SSE Hydro on Saturday June 6.

Full tour schedule below:

Thursday May 28th – The O2, London

Friday May 29th  – Manchester Arena, Manchester

Saturday May 30th – Resorts World Arena, Birmingham

Tuesday June 2nd – BIC Arena, Bournemouth

Wednesday June  3rd  – Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff

Friday June 5th – Utilita Arena, Newcastle

Saturday June 6 – SSE Hydro, Glasgow

Bonnie "Prince" Billy stays busy - in the past five years he has released albums of previously-recorded songs by Susanna Wallumrod, Mekons, Merle Haggard; even himself) and a collaborative record with Bitchin Bajas! The only thing he hasn't done is a new album of Bonny originals - in case you weren't counting, 2011's Wolfroy Goes To Town was the last one. Things happen for reasons that are often bigger than ourselves and outside of our control. They happen suddenly or they happen slowly - but they always happen one day at a time and day after day.

Here's Will Oldham, on the confluence of marketplace, values, aesthetic and process that slowly built new album I Made A Place: "In recent years, the whole world of recorded music, in the way that such music is conceived, perceived, recorded, released and distributed, has been atomized. I tried holding my breath, waiting for the storm to pass, but this storm is here to stay and its devastation is our new landscape. What else is a person to do except what he knows and feels, which for me is making records built out of songs intended for the intimate listening experiences of wonderful strangers who share something spiritually and musically? I started working on these songs thinking that there was no way I was going to finish them and record and release them. This was a constructive frame-of-mind that protected the songs until this frightening moment when we let go of them and give them to you."

The world has changed. Some things will never change. Some are gone forever. Thankfully, this isn't one of them: the wait for new Bonnie "Prince" Billy is now on a timer. Picking up where last year's ‘Blueberry Jam’ left off, ‘(At The) Back of the Pit’ considers what to do with the things we love when it comes time for the death (and therefore, rebirth) of our world. It's an affirming country jam: elegiac early moments give way to jaunty roots-rock strides, a horn section soulfully charting the long rays at the end of the day as well as the first rays of the new rising sun as they light on all our hopeful tomorrows.