Erasure have today 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 11 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
of Andy 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.’
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