ERASURE -Tomorrow's World- [Album] Release Date: 30.09.2011 MUTE/GoodToGo

ERASURE “Tomorrow’s World” [Album] Release Date: 30.09.2011 MUTE/GoodToGo

ALBUM

Info: 25 years of Erasure

After selling 25 million albums and more than 30 single hits, Erasure returns with a work full of warm-hearted electropop and soul that oscillates between hedonism and heartache. For production, Vince Clarke and Andy Bell enlisted British electropop star Vincent “Frankmusik” Frank, a one-man band whose portfolio includes remixes and collaborations with Lady Gaga, Pet Shop Boys, Ellie Goulding, and others. Currently, the man who was born in the year of Erasure's founding, 1985, resides in Los Angeles, where he also operates his studio.

Vince explains: “We chose Frank because he is someone who has a different approach to the music, who is sympathetic to synthesizers, and incredibly keen. He told me the music scene in London was just too small for him, so he made a conscious decision and moved to LA, with nothing! He just really likes that American pop thing – that whole Lady Gaga, full-on wall of sound.”

The combination of Erasure's timeless songwriting and Frank's opulent, heavily processed studio sound led to a fruitful mix:

Andy and Vince explode like warheads on disco love missiles on tracks like “Be With You” and “Fill Us With Fire,” euphoric manifestos of love wrapped in shiny state-of-the-art electro-pop. But like all Erasure albums, “Tomorrow’s World,” celebrating their 25th anniversary, also contains a share of bittersweet introspection and world-wise melancholy.

The dreamy breakup anthem “What Will I Say When You’re Gone” is informed by contemporary dubstep in its staccato framework, while the lush post-mortem relationship eulogy “When I Start To (Break It All Down)” already sounds like a future stadium classic in the making. In “Just When I Thought It Was Ending,” Andy reveals his contemplative crooner side, while “You’ve Got To Save Me Right Now” unleashes a anthemic electro-gospel waltz.

Yet despite heartache and uncertainty, sunny euphoria and romantic optimism remain the prevailing colors in Erasure's musical rainbow on “Tomorrow’s World.” Even when the hedonistic fervor contains a desperate undertone – as in the doomed diva chronicle “A Whole Lotta Love Run Riot” or the nocturnal confession “When I Go Twisting” – Andy's operatic voice and Vince's soaring melodies are always in pursuit of the stars. Accelerated by Frank's glittering production, these two tracks sound like colossal Ibiza trance-pop anthems for the long summer of the coming year.

In the 4 years since their last studio album “Light At The End of the World,” Erasure has been busy with countless other projects. Vince teamed up again with Alison Moyet to reactivate their legendary synth-soul duo Yazoo, expanded the studio in his house in Maine, and not least accepted the prestigious “Song Collection Award” at the Ivor Novello Awards in recognition of 30 years of his songwriting. Andy released the acclaimed solo album “Non-Stop” and lent his voice to the BBC TV show “Pop Star To Opera Star.” However, despite the long break, Erasure was not entirely absent during these years, as they released the retrospective Total Pop! – The First 40 Hits in 2009.

The songwriting chemistry is the key to Erasure's unbroken success for 25 years. Andy and Vince write their songs as they always have: together in the same room, face to face, waiting for inspiration – which fortunately always arrives. …

Album Tracklisting:

1. Be With You

2. Fill Us With Fire

3. What Will I Say When You're Gone

4. You've Got To Save Me Right Now

5. A Whole Lotta Love Run Riot

6. When I Start To (Break Down)

7. I Lose Myself

8. Then I Go Twisting

9. Just When I Thought It Was Ending

SINGLE

"When I Start To (Break It All Down)", a lush ex-post relationship eulogy, is the first single from their new album "Tomorrow's World" set to be released on 30.09. The single (as well as album) artwork was designed by Tom Hingston using sculptures by Kate MacDowell.

The single will be released on 23.09 as a CD and download with 5 tracks. In addition to the single version, it includes 3 additional remixes, as well as a cover version of the theme melody from the British TV series "Tomorrow's World", which inspired the album title - the single track itself will be available for download starting 26.08.

Single Tracklisting:

When I Start To (Break It All Down) [Single Mix]

Tomorrow's World

When I Start To (Break It All Down) [Steve Smart & Westfunk Main Room Mix]

When I Start To (Break It All Down) [Kris Menace Remix]

When I Start To (Break It All Down) [Little Loud Remix]

Tour Dates:

08.11.2011 Offenbach – Stadthalle

11.11.2011 - Stuttgart – Liederhalle

12.11.2011 - Cologne - E Werk

14.11.2011 - Dresden - Alter Schlachthof