5.0 out of 5 stars Worth the wait

C.T. · 5 October 2011

(function() { P.when('cr-A', 'ready').execute(function(A) { if(typeof A.toggleExpanderAriaLabel === 'function') { A.toggleExpanderAriaLabel('review_text_read_more', 'Read more of this review', 'Read less of this review'); } }); })(); .review-text-read-more-expander:focus-visible { outline: 2px solid #2162a1; outline-offset: 2px; border-radius: 5px; } I can't believe that it has now been 4 years since Erasure's last studio album, and if you loved the 'Dance' feel of 'The Light At the End of The World' you are going to love this.'Tomorrows World' is quite simply a fantastic album, consisting of that classic Erasure sound and yet at the same time it sounds very modern. As mentioned, several of the tracks such as my favourite 'Be With You', 'Fill us with Fire' and 'Then I Go Twisting' a are really dance orientated and wouldn't be out of place in a modern night club.At the other end of the spectrum you have songs like 'You've Got to Save Me Right Now', which was the only new song played live during this years Total Pop Tour. It is a slow powerful song that makes great use of Andy Bell's amazing vocals, not my favourite on the album, but hopefully a grower, since it seems to be the bands favourite.Other great tracks include the fantastic single 'When I Start to Break it all down' and typical Erasure sounding tunes 'What will I say when you are gone?' and 'Just When I thought it was over'.The only negative it the fact that the album only has 9 tracks, giving it a total running time of just over 30mins, probably the shortest album I have ever known. But at least in this double edition you have the second CD to enjoy, with several remixes and demos to enjoy.Ultimately this new Erasure album is fantastic and is something the band can be proud of. I love it.

5.0 out of 5 stars great music

j. · 4 November 2011

i was quite apprehensive waiting to hear the new cd but i was very pleasantly suprised i really like it. Ihave been an erasure fan since the 80s and love there music over the recent years theyve had some poor songs released but i feel they could release a few off this cd. the songs fit in well with erasures older songs in there concerts and most people who iv spoken to enjoyed there new stuff . Well done erasure may their success continue. Your fans appreciate it x

4.0 out of 5 stars This Used To be The Future

M.M.A.R. · 5 October 2011

t some point in history, perhaps imperceptably, Erasure turned from a glorious pop act to something resembling a kind retro-futurism - a world that could have existed but never quite did. The chart troubling days of a string of number 1's and 8 nights at the Birmingham NEC or the demolished London Docklands Arena long gone. The question is - like many bands of a certain vintage - is how do you stay relevant? (and if not to anyone else, how do you stay relevant to yourself?) Or.. does the act of making music become a habit, a job, and mistaking saying something with having something to say?"Tommorow's World" - Erasure's umpteenth album - goes no further in answering this. People and culture changes over time : Erasure moved down one avenue. The world went down another. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing, but the Spinal Tap world of an ever more selective appeal is imminent. A glorious future behind them, Erasure are now a heritage act. How many times can you say the same thing? How many ways? Before perhaps you run out of places to go and things to say?"Whole Lotta Love Run Riot", for example : placed at fiftth / halfway in the albums running order, this is the place in an album which is traditionally the strongest non-single track : instead we get a somewhat cheesy, generic instrumental that wouldn't've sounded out of place in a early Nineties rave disco, with a forgettable Andy Bell vocal over the top. Andy has one of the grandest voices in pop, but only when it's used the right way, and in the past decade, Erasure seem to have lost the art of writing classic pop songs. There's nothing wrong with the songs here, but there's little maturity in songwriting or melody shown here - no progression beyond a certain template. It could be that what Erasure do has peaked and reached an apex - that there are no other directions for them to go. After all, Vince Clarke is a genius, but rarely extends beyond his palette (and could you really the difference between an early Mode song, a Yazoo song, and an Erasure instrumental?), and Bell seems to return lyrically to an old well : should a 50 year old man write about going to the disco and techno monophonic sounds? What about the life journey? Or should an artist stay forever in aspic, defined by who they were at 25? And do we really change ever, anyway?Perhaps for me, it's the sense of life at a crossroads that is worth considering. "Tommorow's World" is another Erasure album - neither a glorious return to form, nor an awful late-term slump, but a solid consistent record of pop songs. Were these songs badged up as the latest X-Factor winner's soaring disco anthem, would anyone notice? Possibly not. On their own, these are all fine strong songs - "Fill Us With Fire", and lead single "When I Start To Break It All Down" stand up to anything in the recent Erasure canon, but what this record is missing is a sense of need, of urgency. Whilst, with this record, Erasure have produced a strong, solid, dependable record made of pop thrills and jaunty moments, it is ultimately a somewhat hollow experience, lacking perhaps in a centre, but hoping for the same ecstatic moment where we forget everything but who we want to be - and isn't that the purpose of most music? To help us get nearer to who we want to be?

5.0 out of 5 stars Love Erasure, this is a fab CD

K. · 18 March 2016

Love Erasure, this is a fab CD, can't help but dance to it when I put it on, no matter what I'm doing, cleaning the house or even cooking I have to have a dance :) brilliant songs from them, saw them live when they were promoting this at Sherwood Forest.

5.0 out of 5 stars Erasure - never do their fans a diservice

D. · 20 October 2011

Well.... as with all Erasure albums, they are never grippers upon first listen. Do yourself a favour, and it costs nothing, listen to the previews of each track a few times.... The words and melodies are beautiful. Have had my copy since day 1 of release and cannot stop playing it.

誰が何を言おうと、俺は大好きだっ!

ハ. · 16 October 2011

(function() { P.when('cr-A', 'ready').execute(function(A) { if(typeof A.toggleExpanderAriaLabel === 'function') { A.toggleExpanderAriaLabel('review_text_read_more', 'Read more of this review', 'Read less of this review'); } }); })(); .review-text-read-more-expander:focus-visible { outline: 2px solid #2162a1; outline-offset: 2px; border-radius: 5px; } 今年結成25周年を迎えた彼らの新作が届きました。ちょっとお値段が高いけど、2枚組のデラックス・エディションで購入。シングル・カットしたらスマッシュ・ヒットしそうな一曲目から悩殺(?)されっぱなしの32分間。少しだけ新しい試みが随所にちりばめられてますが、彼らのハートフルなサウンドは一点の曇りも一武の揺らぎも無く俺の胸に届きました。変わらない・・・いや変わらずにいてくれるのが何より嬉しかったりするのは俺だけでしょうか?例えワンパターンと罵られても、そこが大好きな理由だったりするんよね、俺の場合。リミックス３曲と貴重なデモ音源４曲、さらにアルバム未収録１曲を含むディスク2も秀逸な出来でしたよ。2枚通してしばらくヘビロテ決定ですわっ!

Love it!

N. · 25 December 2012

Totally addicted - I liked it to begin with and like it more with each time listening. Erasure is the best.

Excellent - A brave move

M. · 20 November 2011

It's hard to believe that there are negative reviews, but remember that we're not in the 80s or 90s anymore, and some risks have to be taken in order to move forward as an artist. This includes changing the arrangements and style somewhat, and, of course, that is the case with this album.I didn't know what to expect at first, but the end result is very positive. I will concentrate mainly on reviewing the musical side, disregarding the lyrics because I'm still not familiar with them, apart from a few tracks.The first seconds of the opening track, "Be With You", are an instant hook that will probably lift your spirit on a large measure. The song itself is another epic masterpiece, a new Erasure hymn that is already looking like it's becoming a live classic, as seen on the current tour shows. The sound textures were very appropriately chosen to achieve a "feel good" wall of sound. Think of "I Say, I Say, I Say", because this could perfectly pass as a lost track from that album, rearranged with a modern sound. It's impossible to listen to this tune and remain indifferent. I relate it very closely to "Take Me Back", my favorite Erasure track so far. Yes, there is some deliberate auto-tune, but that doesn't detract a single bit from its excellence. Andy Bell does not need auto-tune, so it comes across as an artistic tool and not like cheating at all; besides, it's used really sparingly and with good judgment. Again, it's suprisingly similar to "Take Me Back" in structure and overall mood, and that is, for me, a good thing. Before you know it, you may feel like singing along to it. The only negative thing one could find is that it lasts less than four minutes, and so playing it twice in succession does some justice. 10/10"Fill Us With Fire" is a second-tier song, not particularly memorable, but not bad. This is one of those tunes that could really benefit from a heavy remix or a different arrangement. Not sure whose fault is this, but it sort of underachieves. 6/10"What Will I Say When You Are Gone?" is a slow track that gets progressively better but it's still not good enough. This is the other track that may score as forgettable in the album. I think it's an experiment in mainstream eurocr*p. It doesn't matter anyway, because the positives of the album shadow the negatives. Every Erasure album has a couple of tracks that are not that good, and this is one of them. 6/10"You've Got To Save Me Right Now" is a soul song performed in an electronic world, which sounds like another experiment that didn't fully work, and the arrangement didn't help with the bass and the opening melody. Not to my particular liking, but I admit it's not bad. Makes you think they probably recognized halfway through recording that it wasn't the strongest song in the album and kept it short of 3 minutes to compensate. 7/10"A Whole Lotta Love Run Riot" is a song that surely Lady Gaga will notice and undoubtedly copy soon (or has Erasure deliberately copied the great copycat?), because it seems written in that style. The arrangement combines commercial Gaga-esque sound with some electro bits and the mandatory filtering and sound repetitions, finalizing with some lines in French thrown in. Addictive... but smarter than mainstream commercial pop. 9/10"When I Start To (Break It All Down)" is another lifting track, inducing you to sing along very quickly, only to realize that you will probably won't match Andy Bell's register when reaching the chorus. The arrangement of the first verses has some reminiscence of "The Innocents" (I think that the main synth line uses the same synth sound as "A Little Respect" as well as "Love the Way You Do So" from the "Erasure" album), but the chorus is loaded with new textures, making it sound really nice. You will surely already know this song as it's a single. Very good stuff. 9/10"I Lose Myself" is like a parallel-universe eurodance relative of "Crown of Thorns" in the musical structure, at least in the verses. It's hard to explain, but it works perfectly and it evolves into a full-fledged energetic dance song. Good stuff, but the bridge could have been a bit better. You would probably play this moving, ambient-filled song while driving a car on a highway. 8/10"Then I Go Twisting" is a gem. It's a condensed version of modern trance (or trancy eurodance) at its best. Hard to believe that Erasure is actually doing this style, but it works amazingly well. The chorus is just perfect, likely to stir the emotions associated with the genre. A brave move that pays off, although either they or the arranger (Frankmusik) weren't confident enough to develop a full-length 5 or 6 minutes trance song. I think that this is the most significant evolutionary track of the whole album. If they venture farther, in the future, into these realms, it's quite likely that we'll get better iterations, but I might be saying that because I enjoy trance music. 9/10"Just When I Thought It Was Ending" is a slowly paced track with a sticky chorus line leaning heavily into the sadness conveying mode. The "It's just a matter of time, and only time" part will surely stick in your head long afterwards. I'm quite sure that the synth used in the excellent "Hideaway" solo is used here in the chorus as well, and so it musically bears some connection with that song. 8/10"Tomorrow's World" is an instrumental track that starts by sounding like a tune hidden in Giorgio Moroder's extensive discography combined with a Yazoo-styled melody, instantly switching to a chiptune sound (think of the exact same sounds of the Nintendo Entertainment System or Famicom, if you will) and then jumping into a Moroder style again (think of "I Feel Loved"), finalizing a four-part structure with a mid-80s italo disco synth melody in what is, for me, a clear tribute to electronic music itself. As such, I think it's fair to give it a 7/10.And so we have four really strong standout songs, one of which I think it's solid gold, as well as the rest of the album which is really easy to listen to and enjoy, over and over again, probably monopolizing your time. Erasure is one of the few bands that are very likely to put you in a positive, feel-good mood, saving yourself from a bad day. That was not fulfilled in the last few albums, but, fortunately, it happened again.

やっぱり、２人は最高

s.d.l.f. · 20 October 2011

Frankmusikは聴いたことなかったんで、どんな音に仕上がってるか想像もできなかったんですが、若い割には過去に何度も聴いたようなサウンド・・・目新しさは感じませんでした。「目新しいサウンド」なんてものは存在しないのかもしれないんでしょうが、せめてerasureらしくあってほしかったですね。何だか居心地の悪いような気持になって、disk2のGareth　Jonesのmix聴いて安堵感を覚えてしまいます。　しかし、そんなモヤモヤも吹き飛ばされてしまうほどこのアルバムの収録曲はどれも素晴らしい。素晴らしい、それ以外に言いようがないです。曲そのものの出来の良さはさすがといった感じですね。全曲が3分台と短いから、もっと聴ききたいという欲求の満たされない30分ちょっと。　もしかしてこれって、そういう狙いがあるんですかね？一時期、Vinceはもう以前のようなクオリティーの曲を作るのが困難なのじゃないかと不安になったことがありました。それが杞憂に終るとわかるのに、時間は要しませんでしたが。こんこんと湧き出る清水のように、良質のポップソングを発表しているerasure。Andyのソロ作品にも驚かされましたね。それぞれのソロ・プロジェクトとともに以前にもまして精力的に活動している2人の、このエネルギーの源はいったい何なのでしょうか？今でも2人が最も心血を注いでいるのは「いい楽曲を作ること」「最高のポップソングを生み出すこと」だということが、この作品を聴けばわかります。まさに天にも舞い上がる、得意の爽快なコード進行が素敵すぎる "Full us with fire"ドラマティックで陰影に富んだ " What will I say when you're gone?"待ってました！の " A whole lotta love run riot" " I Lose Myself"そしてラストトラック "Just I thought it was ending"・・・これは、もう・・・Vinceの書くこうした抒情的な美しいメロディにはやられっぱなしですね・・・Andyの歌声が切なく心の底まで響きます。

Aus Vince und Andy werden Andy und Vince

L.H. · 30 September 2011

Was passiert wenn Vince einen Großteil der Produktion abgibt? Genau...Erasure klingen irgendwie anders. So geschehen 1988 mit "The Innocents" als Steven Hague den Part der Produktion übernahm. Das Album klang im Vergleich zu den Vorgängern "Wonderland" und "Circus" einfach reifer und enger an den damaligen Mainstream produziert. Das Album wurde zum 1. Megaseller für Erasure und sprang auf Platz 1 der UK Charts. Die Symbiose funktionierte geradezu perfekt. Perlen wie "A Little Respect", "Chains of Love" und "Ship of Fools" toppten die Charts und wurden zu Evergreens für die Band. Jetzt 23 Jahre später wiederholt sich der Vorgang. Ob es diesmal wieder erfolgreich wird bleibt abzuwarten. Frankmusik durfte diesmal ran und drückt Erasure mächtig den Stempel auf. Vince' Part scheint nahezu wie der Bandname schon sagt..ausradiert. Die Songs sind eingängig, absolut tanzbar. Es gibt so gesehen nur 3 Up-Tempo-Nummern. Der Rest geht ins Tanzbein und direkt in den Club. Wer Erasure nicht kennt wird glauben, es mit einer neuen Band aus dem Dancebereich zu tun zu haben, Fans der 1. Stunde werden vielleicht hin und hergerissen sein. Vermisst man doch die typischen Analogsounds und Effekte wie man es von Vince gewohnt ist. Man könnte sich das letzte Soloalbum von Andy "Nonstop" gefolgt von "Tomorrow's World" anhören und letzteres als Fortsetzung verstehen. So richtig "alte" Gefühle kommen bei der aktuellen Single "When I started to Break it all down" und "Just when I thought it was ending" auf. Somit kann der Albumtitel nicht passender sein. Die Erasurewelt von morgen. Trendy, geradlinig, tanzbar, eingängig, kurzweilig. Erasure klingen so frisch wie nie. Und die kürze des Albums, nicht mal 40 Minuten garantiert wohl eine Dauerrotation. Die Bonus Cd merkt mit ein paar Remixen die sich allesamt als Extended Versionen verstehen können, mit Ausnahme des Remix von Frankmusik vor. Die Demosongs zeigen den Ursprung und doch teilweise gravierenden Unterschied zur final produzierten Version. Hier sind sie wieder, die typischen Vince Clark Sounds. Als Highlight gibt es noch einen Bonustrack. Alles in allem kann man von einer gehörigen Überraschung sprechen. Denn so klangen Erasure noch nie. Zwischen dem Album "Loveboat" und "Tomorrow's World" scheinen produktionstechnisch mehrere Dekaden zu liegen. Man will modern klingen und das ist vollends gelungen. Kurze knackige Tracks, ähnlich wie bei "Cowboy" die sofort im Ohr hängen bleiben, nur dass im Vergleich dort noch sehr viel Vince Clark zu hören war, heute könnte man fast meinen Andy Bell hat mit diesem Album seine Solokariere fortgesetzt. Dennoch eine runde Sache die sich ideal zum Hausputz, Autofahren oder Abtanzen eignet. Somit ist die musikalische Welt von Morgen aus Erasuresicht eine Frischzellenkur. Staub und Spinnenweben wurden weitgehend entfernt. Optimistischer Blick auf Morgen.