Summary: "Erasure" was Vince and Andy's attempt at making an atmospheric record. I remember someone at the time calling this a gay version of Pink Floyd, with Vince trying to go for the ethereal. Unfortunately, when your forte is snappy 3 minute pop songs, bringing in Diamanda Galas to wail overtop the instrumentals in more annoying than it is art. The end result was this stumble by the heretofore dependable Erasure.
The problem lays mostly in the songs. Only "Rescue Me" measures up to the snap of past hits, and "Fingers and Thumbs" comes close. "Rock Me Gently" is the most successful in the art vs commerce experiment, but gets bogged down in the overlong arrangement. You certainly can't blame them for trying to evolve out of their box, but for a band that has a CD in my desert island box ("Wild!"), I can reliably say that "Erasure" is a CD that you can pass on if you're just discovering Vince and Andy's fine body of work.
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