Erasure embarks on ambitious new album. Targeting a 2025 release?
Erasure
Vince Clarke and Andy Bell from Erasure have reunited over the holiday season to start work on what will become the next Erasure album. The first sessions should take place later this month when Bell is expected to join Clarke in New York.
Although it’s not sure when the album will be released, a late 2025 release should not be excluded.
Clarke has been crafting new tracks over the past few years. He began developing backing tracks immediately after the band’s UK tour supporting “The Neon” in 2020. These tracks are now prepared for Bell’s vocal contributions.
The duo’s most recent album, “Day-Glo (Based on a True Story)”, released on August 12, 2022, was their 19th studio effort. This experimental release served as a companion piece to their 2020 album, “The Neon”. Vince Clarke deconstructed and reimagined tracks from “The Neon”, uncovering “a track within a track”, which led to entirely new compositions. Andy Bell then collaborated with producer Gareth Jones to add vocals.
“Day-Glo” diverged from their typical synth-pop style, bringing a more ambient and introspective approach. The tracklist includes titles such as “Based on a True Story,” “Bop Beat,” and “The Conman”.
And… a 2025 Erasure remix
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About Erasure
Erasure formed in London in 1985, a synth-pop duo of Vince Clarke (keyboards, production, songwriting), a founding member of Depeche Mode and half of Yazoo, and vocalist Andy Bell, who answered a music-press advertisement Clarke placed seeking a singer. The duo’s debut album, “Wonderland,” was released in 1986, with commercial breakthrough arriving via the single “Sometimes” the same year. Erasure logged 24 consecutive UK top-40 singles between 1986 and 2007 and won Best British Group at the 1989 Brit Awards.
The duo has released 19 studio albums, including “Tomorrow’s World” (2011), “World Be Gone” (2017) and “The Neon” (2020), selling more than 28 million albums worldwide. In 2025, Andy Bell confirmed the duo was writing material for its first album since “The Neon,” with sessions following the death of Vince Clarke’s wife, Tracy Hurley Martin. Both members have said they remain actively working together as Erasure. As of 2025, Vince Clarke and Andy Bell confirmed they were writing new material together, their first sessions since “The Neon” (2020).
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