Erasure Return With Elevation
Erasure are back with a new single called ‘Elevation’ and will release their new album ‘The Violet Flame’ in September. “It’s all about hope, forgiveness, being given a new chance and the world being your oyster” – Andy Bell. As the duo approach 30 years of songwriting having sold over 25 million albums worldwide, the […]
Andy Bell Releases New Solo Album
Erasure’s lead singer Andy Bell is releasing a new solo album which has been described as the most serious work of his career. The theatrical work is titled ‘Torsten, The Bareback Saint’ and is about a gay man watching his partners affected by the AIDS epidemic. Described as theatrical song cycle, the 22 track album […]
Retro Cassette Friday
We’ve declared Friday ‘retro cassette day’ in the OUTinPerth office. Each week we’re going to insert five cassettes into our trusty TEAC cassette player and review five albums from the past. We hope you discover or re-discover some gems of days gone by. Agnetha Faltskog, Wrap Your Arm Around Me Polar Music, 1983 You really […]
Andy Bell Takes on Kate Bush
Erasure’s lead singer Andy Bell has revealed he’ll be releasing a version of the Kate Bush classic ‘Breathing’. The track is part of the British Electric Foundati0n’s release ‘Dark: Music of Quality and Distinction Volume 3’. The BEF is made up of Martin Ware and Ian Craig Marsh. The duo left British electro band The […]
Xiu Xiu Return
Xiu Xiu are releasing Always, their ninth album of beautiful but often melancholic and depressing songs. The new album’s track listing reveals that band’s collaborators are still feeling pretty down with song names like Born to Suffer and I Luv Abortion. The band’s last album was 2010’s Dear God I Hate Myself. Xiu Xiu is […]
Beginner’s guide to Erasure
Erasure return this month with their killer new album Tomorrow’s World. Erasure formed in 1986 when Vince Clarke who was previously half of the duo Yazoo with Alison Moyet and founding member of Depeche Mode teamed up with gay singer Andy Bell. Here’s our take on their new album plus some of their past classics […]
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