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Vince Clarke re-emerges from one of the most influential trajectories of pop synthesis to inaugurate a new project, Doublespeak, together with Neil Arthur and producer Benge.
An operation that looks back without nostalgia, but with the urgency to rewrite.
The trio signs a self-titled album out on May 29th for London Records, built on a series of synthetic reinterpretations that cross territories that are only apparently distant: ABBA, The Carpenters, Young Marble Giants, The Magnetic Fields. Not an exercise in style, but a rewriting through the analogue alphabet.
The project is anticipated by the version of Back to Nature by Fad Gadget, the second single ever released by Mute Records in 1979. A return to the origins that sounds like a declaration of intent.
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Clarke, key figure of Depeche Mode, Yazoo and Erasure, describes the project as an almost naive encounter with the repertoire: little-known songs become living material, almost demos to be shaped. A reversal that returns covers to their most radical function, that of appropriation.
Doublespeak thus fits into a line of continuity with Clarke's recent journey, from the ambient minimalism of Songs of Silence to Erasure's latest releases.
THE TRACKLIST
01 Back to Nature (Fad Gadget cover)
02 Brand New Life (Young Marble Giants cover)
03 The Visitors (ABBA cover)
04 I Can't Escape Myself (The Sound cover)
05 Goodbye to Love (The Carpenters cover)
06 Rock On (David Essex cover)
07 Smoke and Mirrors (The Magnetic Fields cover)
08 Day Breaks, Night Heals (Thomas Leer and Robert Rental cover)
09 Gentle on My Mind (John Hartford cover)
10 Richard! (Ed Dowie cover)
11 End Credits (Laptop cover)
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