Erasure are back with their feel-good new single, Hey Now (Think I Got A Feeling).
The latest track from Andy Bell and Vince Clarke is the lead single from the duo’s upcoming 18th studio album, The Neon, and premiered on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2 on Thursday morning.
Announcing the album, which is out August 21st, the pair said in a press release: “The Neon is a place that lives in the imagination, that we – you and me – put in the real world.
“It could be a night club, a shop, a city, a cafe, a country, a bedroom, a restaurant, any place at all,” they continued. “It’s a place of possibility in warm, glowing light and this is music that takes you there.”
Written and produced by Erasure, the album’s initial sessions saw Vince and Andy reunite to work on the follow up to 2017’s World Be Gone.
Vince explained: “Our music is always a reflection of how we’re feeling. (Andy) was in a good place spiritually, and so was I – really good places in our minds. You can hear that.”
Taking inspiration from pop music through the decades, from bands Andy loved as a child through to the present day, he explains: “It was about refreshing my love – hopefully our love – of great pop. I want kids now to hear these songs! I wanted to recharge that feeling that pop can come from anyone.”
Andy and Vince worked together in Antlanta, Georgia, and artwork for the album was shot at that time in Gods Own Junkyard – a gallery housing a huge collection of vintage neon.
Andy recalles: “I felt like it was being inside a virtual reality game. I loved that it felt like being in a different world. That’s what I want our new album to convey.”
The full tracklist is as follows:
Hey Now (Think I Got a Feeling)
Nerves of Steel
Fallen Angel
No Point in Tripping
Shot A Satellite
Tower of Love
Diamond Lies
New Horizons
Careful What I Try to Do
Kid You’re Not Alone
Andy has also been tapped to appear on singer-songwriter Bright Light Bright Light’s upcoming album, Fun City, on the track Good At Goodbyes.
Find out more about the collaboration here.
