Erasure follow up their recent 30thanniversary celebrations with their seventeenth album, World Be Gone.

The BRIT and Ivor Novello winning pop duo have released a staggering number of albums, including 5 UK Number 1’s and 17 top 10 singles (35 singles charted in the UK Top 40) and their recent best of, Always, saw Erasure entering the Top 10 album charts once again.

World Be Gone sees the award-winning songwriters in a more reflective mood, giving the world and recent political upheavals a thoughtful examination and looking forward to the future. This new album is certainly less dance-orientated in feel than its predecessor, 2014’s The Violet Flame.

“Before we started we were thinking maybe we should do Erasure 2, following up our album from 1995,” Andy says.

“Then when I heard the demos, they sounded like trance movie soundracks. I always think that if the idea is good, you should never commit a vocal to tape or on the phone. I didn’t put anything down, and then I started worrying that the tracks were too good and that they stood up on their own.

“I found that I couldn’t do anything until I met with Vince. When he was in the same room, I just started trilling and singing the songs to the melodies. So it was the confidence of having him there, and him being the muse, that made it work. He’s always really good at saying if he doesn’t like how something sounds.

“Thankfully it all started coming together again, like a jigsaw puzzle. We weren’t trying to be political. The album just represented exactly what was going on.”

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