Review: Liverpool's legendary Echo & The Bunnymen add to their 30-plus years of service to music with a new album, of sorts, that in fact delivers two new compositions and 13 other songs plucked from their vast and expansive catalog. Long-time fans will no doubt be pleased to hear the new beatless tinges given to their 1984 classic "Seven Seas", while of course the album is a perfect diving point for new audience to come to grips with the band too. Take, for example, the gnarlyish drawl of "Nothing Lasts Forever" that helps offset the Bowie-like tendencies heard in numbers like "Lips like Sugar" and "The Somnambulist". Sounds like a cliche, but seriously, still as good as it ever was.
Review: This is a new double vinyl version of The Very Best of Erasure, first released In 2015 as a limited-edition 3-CD hardback book edition and digital release, or a standard single CD edition. This wax version has all 20 tracks from the album and they span the entire length of the band's career from its start up until the point of release. It shows a subtle evolution in songwriting and sounds but always with that signature style that made the dance-pop icons so well-loved. Andy Bell and Vince Clarke are some of the most enduring and award-wining songwriting duos to ever come from the UK and this shows why.
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