(CNN) -- 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 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 into two distinct halves: the happy pop introduction and the more "weird" experimental conclusion, Tennant said. The album also features guitar performances by Johnny Marr.

"Love, etc.", the album's first track and currently No. 2 on the Billboard Hot Dance Singles Sales chart, is a social statement about how money, shopping and celebrity don't necessarily bring happiness, while the third track, "Beautiful People," imagines that it must be great to have wealth and fame, Tennant said.

"At the end of the day, it's an old-fashioned sentiment, but love is more important, really," Lowe said of "Love, etc."

"Pandemonium," a love song inspired by the relationship between actress Kate Moss and singer Pete Doherty, was originally written for Kylie Minogue to sing, but she didn't use it, Tennant said. Media reports that they'll never work together again are incorrect, however, he said.

"I think they exaggerated that," Tennant said. "Yeah, so that's not true." (In a BBC story, Tennant and Lowe said they, like many songwriters, hadn't heard back from Minogue after submitting their material. "We won't be doing it again," Lowe told the BBC.)

Perhaps the most out-of-character song stylistically is the finale, "Legacy," a meditation on politicians leaving office ("You'll get over it" is the main message). Tennant identified it as his favorite because of the poetry and the mystery in the music -- "it continues to fascinate me," he said.

"The Way It Used to Be," a favorite track for both Boys, charts a relationship from its romantic beginning to its melancholic end, wondering "what is left of love" and longing to "leave our promises behind / rewind and try again."

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