Day-Glo (Based on a True Story) and their 2020 studio album, The Neon, show two very unique sides of Erasure. With their core themes of love, understanding, and positively, this release marks the closure of this chapter of The Neon.
Listen to the first chapter of Day-Glo (Based on a True Story) here.
Pre-order the album here.
Vince Clarke, finding himself with unscheduled time to spend in the studio, began manipulating files for tracks from The Neon, their acclaimed 2020 album release. With no agenda in mind, gradually a hidden landscape in the tracks began to emerge – one that revealed a track within a track, another world within The Neon. Clarke explored this further, progressing some of the techniques he was using until the tracks that make up Day-Glo (Based on a True Story) started to fall into place.
Andy Bell then took these tracks into the studio and, with long-time collaborator Gareth Jones, began work on his parts. Although undoubtably Erasure, a sense of improvisation permeates the tracks as Bell worked on vocals that built, through collage, into the finished album.
The Neon went into the UK Official Albums Chart at #4, Erasure’s highest chart position since 1994’s I Say I Say I Say (which in turn was recently released as a deluxe 2CD expanded hardback book release).
Track listing:
The Neon went into the UK Official Albums Chart at #4, Erasure’s highest chart position since 1994’s I Say I Say I Say (which in turn was recently released as a deluxe 2CD expanded hardback book release).
Track listing:
1. Based on a True Story
2. Bop Beat
3. Pin-Prick
4. The Conman
5. Now
6. Inside Out
7. Harbour of My Heart
8. 3 Strikes and You're Out
9. The Shape of Things
10. The End
2. Bop Beat
3. Pin-Prick
4. The Conman
5. Now
6. Inside Out
7. Harbour of My Heart
8. 3 Strikes and You're Out
9. The Shape of Things
10. The End
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