English synthpop duo Erasure recently announced their 17th studio album «World Be Gone» - out May 19th, 2017 via Mute. «World Be Gone» is the follow up to «The Violet Flame» (2014), and follows the band’s recent 30th anniversary celebrations.

«World Be Gone» features 10 new tracks, written, performed and produced by Erasure and mixed by Matty Green. «World Be Gone» will be available on CD (cat.no.: CDSTUMM405), regular black vinyl (cat.no.: STUMM405), Limited Edition orange vinyl (cat.no.: LSTUMM405), Limited Edition Compact Cassette (cat.no.: CSTUMM405) and Digital Download.

Track list:

01. Love You To The Sky 4:26

02. Be Careful What You Wish For! 3:21

03. World Be Gone 3:39

04. A Bitter Parting 3:13

05.  Still It's Not Over 4:03

06. Take Me Out Of Myself 4:34

07. Sweet Summer Loving 3:55

08. Oh What A World 4:15

09. Lousy Sum Of Nothing 4:12

10. Just A Little Love 3:33

Their new album sees the award-winning songwriters in a more reflective mood, giving the world and recent political upheavals a thoughtful examination and, as highlighted on the painted artwork showing a ship’s masthead rising up from being submerged in the stormy waters, looking forward to the future.

Explains Vince Clarke, «Obviously the current political climate lends itself to lots of ideas», Andy Bell continues, «I think there’s an underswell of opinion, and people are slowly waking up. I’m hoping that people will take the album in a positive way, that they’ll use it as optimistic rabble-rousing music.»

In other news: Erasure are delighted to have been invited as special guests on The Heavy Entertainment Show‎ - Robbie Williams's stadium tour taking place in the Summer 2017.

Info taken from official Erasure web site.