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On Friday, MusicTap.com announced that the new Erasure CD, "Snow Globe," will be released by Mute on November 5, 2013. Mute and Erasureinfo.com have still not posted any news yet, but MusicTap.com is a pretty reliable source. Undoubtedly, this will be a holiday-themed album.

JT
synthboy40

Erasure sounded very excited about the album recently and i'd be amazed to hear that it's a Christmas album if that's what you're getting at! I'd be VERY disappointed...

Looks like it is an actual Christmas song album...
http://www.erasureinfo.com/vince-interv ... ure-album/

Cracker's International Part Deux?

[quote][i]Originally posted by Neil Kelly[/i]
<br>Erasure sounded very excited about the album recently and i'd be amazed to hear that it's a Christmas album if that's what you're getting at! I'd be VERY disappointed...
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It's definitely a Christmas LP as they are photographed in the first few pages of the latest 'Classic Pop' magazine, it's 16 tracks of 'covers and original songs'. I didn't recognise Andy in the new photo at all, he looks like he has been photoshopped to within an inch of his life!

[quote][i]Originally posted by crichert[/i]
<br>Looks like it is an actual Christmas song album...
http://www.erasureinfo.com/vince-interv ... ure-album/

Cracker's International Part Deux?

[quote][i]Originally posted by Neil Kelly[/i]
<br>Erasure sounded very excited about the album recently and i'd be amazed to hear that it's a Christmas album if that's what you're getting at! I'd be VERY disappointed...
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"Vince’s studio in Brooklyn where the duo made this video" [:)]

Sugoi !!!

"Crackers International" was pure genius. If "Snow Globe" includes even one track as brilliant as "The Hardest Part" or "She Won't Be Home," I will be a very happy man. If it's full of things like Andy singing "Santa Baby" in a wispy torch song voice, I'm going to hurl.

JT
synthboy1969

Good points synthboy1969!

Lol!! I suspect that the first two tracks are:

1. Santa Baby (Wispy Torch Song Remix)
2. Last Christmas (Wispy Extended Dance Mix)

[:D]

Seriously though, if it's anything like Crackers Int'l - I'd be very happy with as well!!!

[quote][i]Originally posted by synthboy1969[/i]
<br>"Crackers International" was pure genius. If "Snow Globe" includes even one track as brilliant as "The Hardest Part" or "She Won't Be Home," I will be a very happy man. If it's full of things like Andy singing "Santa Baby" in a wispy torch song voice, I'm going to hurl.

JT
synthboy1969
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[quote][i]Originally posted by synthboy1969[/i]
<br>"Crackers International" was pure genius. If "Snow Globe" includes even one track as brilliant as "The Hardest Part" or "She Won't Be Home," I will be a very happy man. If it's full of things like Andy singing "Santa Baby" in a wispy torch song voice, I'm going to hurl.

JT
synthboy1969
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I agree about "Crackers International" being genius - but most of the tracks on it weren't Christmas-themed. Though I do admit "She Won't Be Home" is about the only Christmas song I bother listening to when that dreaded season comes around lol. Their version of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" is quite nice actually. The fact that the album will feature some original new songs is what will get me to buy it. If it was JUST covers, I'd probably pass on it. I'm also hoping they are producing it themselves. I liked the last album, but I think Erasure is best when they are completely on their own.

Deluxe edition announced. Not cheap though at £39.50 + P&P no doubt. Typical. Have a dilemma now. Cheap option or full-blown. Might depend on the 3rd disc as not sure what it is... http://shop.lexermusic.com/index.php?p= ... &parent=45

£40 for 3 CD's and some crappy postcards they can bugger off.

Album trailer here:

http://vimeo.com/74446739

From press release:

The album will be released on CD and as a Limited Edition Deluxe Christmas Box Set. The box set includes 3 CDs plus an exclusive festive tree bauble, desktop calendar, postcards and a Christmas card signed by Vince and Andy with much more to be announced (full tracklisting below).

Produced by Erasure, Gareth Jones and Richard X, Snow Globe is a collection of original compositions and seasonal classics, and follows 2011’s album, Tomorrow’s World.

The first single, Gaudete (Erasure’s take on the traditional Latin carol) will be released on October 29th.

When the 28-year-old songwriting partnership that is Erasure met up in Vince Clarke’s Brooklyn studio to start work on the new album, they both approached the familiarity with a little nervousness. Soon enough, the telepathic, connective and alchemical magic of songwriting fired both their imaginations once again.

In Erasure, they both say, they have the ability to do what the other cannot in facilitating a fleshed-out musical vision. ‘I told Vince I wanted the music to sound like shards of ice or snowflakes falling’. Vince paired all the music of songs he worried might be over-familiar back to their route chord and fleshed nothing out, with carefully aggregated synthetic punctuation points, making a spare, brittle noise that speaks of Erasure’s incredible ability to move listeners from the simplest of places. ‘It sounds quite odd,’ says Vince, delighted at the leftfield result of what could’ve been such a mainstream pursuit. ‘But always with us melody is at the heart of everything.’

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.

Speaking of "Crackers International," it looks like the deluxe edition of Snowglobe has 2013 remixes of She Won't Be Home and God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen. Which probably means they will be terrible.

Lol! I hope not...but sadly, you're probably right.

[quote][i]Originally posted by morgan1098[/i]
<br>Speaking of "Crackers International," it looks like the deluxe edition of Snowglobe has 2013 remixes of She Won't Be Home and God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen. Which probably means they will be terrible.
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