Erasure have announced the first details of their much
anticipated new studio album with the news that Snow Globe – a collection of
original compositions and seasonal classics – will be released on 11th November
2013.
The album will be preceded by its first single, "Gaudete",
Erasure’s distinctive take on the Medieval Latin carol, which was also a folk
hit for Steeleye Span in 1973.
‘I haven’t actually heard him sing better,’ says Vince Clark of
Andy Bell stepping back into the booth. ‘I found my inner choirboy again,’ says
Andy. ‘I thought I’d lost him but he was there all along.’
Unlike the bells and whistles, glitter and tinsel sets that
crowd the market come Christmas-time, Snow Globe is possessed of something more
in the wistfully, strangely subdued celebratory mould of recent seasonal albums
by Tracey Thorn and Kate Bush. ‘We managed to strip everything back to bare
essentials,’ Vince says approvingly of the minimal approach Erasure took for
this recording. ‘White Christmas almost has a drone all the way through it. I
love that.’
More details and the full tracklist for the album will be announced soon.
3 comments:
"Inner choirboy"? I expect he's knelt before a few candles in hsi time...
Anyway, it may be feeling somewhat autumnal, but there is still no excuse for Xmas in September.
Jx
I can't wait for the best Christmas album this year :) love when my favorite singers actually make a whole Xmas album.
I am SO looking forward to this one, and I agree - I love it when my favorite singers makes christmas albums! I am also really looking forward to the Kim Wilde X-mas CD!
X-mas in September? Well, I agree, it is a bit early - but the album isn't out until November.
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