Integral (song)

"Integral" is a 2007 single by British synthpop duo Pet Shop Boys, released in an electronic download-only format on 8 October. It was the only single released to promote the band's remix album Disco 4 in 2007. The track was originally released on the band's 2006 album Fundamental and many sources consider it to be the fourth single from that album.

"Integral"
Single by Pet Shop Boys
from the album Fundamental
B-side"Remixes"
Released8 October 2007
Recorded2007
GenrePop[1]
Length3:27 (7" mix)
7:23 (on Disco 4)
3:55 (on Fundamental)
LabelParlophone
Songwriter(s)Pet Shop Boys
Producer(s)Trevor Horn
Pet Shop Boys (single ver., remix and additional production)
Pet Shop Boys singles chronology
"She's Madonna"
(2007)		 "Integral"
(2007)		 "Love etc."
(2009)

The single was the first download-only single released by Pet Shop Boys and peaked at #197 on the UK Singles Chart. Online digital media delivery company 7digital has announced that of its top three singles of the year, Integral was number three.

Subject matter

The single criticises the Identity Cards Act 2006. A statement from the band cited the issue as the reason that Tennant ceased his well-publicized support of Tony Blair's Labour party. The lyrics are fully masked and converted to the homage to Yevgeny Zamyatin's legendary dystopian book We, in which the inhabitants of the future One State try to build The Integral, a glass spaceship, in order to solve the cosmic equation and resolve all the problems in their One State.

Download package
  1. "Integral" (Perfect Immaculate 7" mix)
  2. "Integral" (Dave Spoon remix)
  3. "Integral" (video)

Official mixes
  1. "Integral" (Perfect Immaculate mix)
  2. "Integral" (Perfect Immaculate 7" mix)
  3. "Integral" (Dave Spoon remix)
  4. "Integral" (Dave Spoon dub)

Single artwork

The artwork for this single is a QR code, which, when scanned, gives a link to the Pet Shop Boys' website.

Chart performance
Chart (2007) Peak
position
Romanian Top 100[2] 81
UK Singles Chart[3] 197
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References
  1. Abebe, Nitsuh (30 May 2006). "Pet Shop Boys: Fundamental". Pitchfork. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
  2. Romanian peak
  3. http://zobbel.de/cluk/CLUK_P.HTM
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