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Track Listings
| 1. Running Out |
| 2. Call On Me |
| 3. Subject / Object |
| 4. Say What You Want |
| 5. Will You Be There? |
| 6. Slow Release |
| 7. Touch |
| 8. Non-Stop |
| 9. DHDQ |
| 10. Honey If You Love Him (That's All That Matters) |
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I bought this (from another retailer) back when it was launched in 2010. I'm a longstanding Erasure/Andy Bell fan, but I have to admit I have never listened to the album all the way through. Why? The audio production makes heavy use of processing and what sounds like dynamic compression, and frankly I find it quite tiring and unpleasant to listen to. It's very LOUD and IN YOUR FACE and on some of the early tracks the effect is almost as if the volume of the backing track is sucking in and out to make enough headroom for the vocal line or the bass. Have dynamics gone out of fashion? There's just no space in this mix, no air for the music to breathe in! Difficult to comment musically - the tracks I've actually listened to (about half of them) are OK but nothing special and I haven't come across a standout track like 'Crazy' from 'Electric Blue' or <almost anything> from early/mid era Erasure. I suspect if I were more into dance/trance music I would be happier with this but as it is - I have to listen to it at quite a low volume level to avoid a headache. Go and buy 'Electric Blue' instead, or even better a copy of Erasure's 'Chorus' for true genius at work.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Timewarp Alert!!! I remember the first time I heard
Mr Bell sing. It was Erasure's 1986 Top Of The Pops
debut performing 'Sometimes'. (I still love that song!)
The dancing was decidedly dodgy but the voice was good.
Almost a quarter of a century later and it's still in
splendid shape. Immediately recognisable and solid as a rock.
On 'Non-Stop' Mr Bell has teamed up with Belgian producer
Pascal Gabriel who has a fine pedigree when it comes to the
noble history and finer points of vibrant electro-pop.
There are ten songs in the collection; nine of them
Bell/Gabriel collaborations and one written by and featuring
Perry (ex-Jane's Addiction) Farrell. It's all good stuff
if this is the kind of stuff that you like - and I do.
'Non-Stop' relies on technology more than Mr Bell's last
outing 'Electric Blue' (2005) but still has soul.
Opening track 'Running Out' is a good example of how
to inject some good feeling into an otherwise rather
chilly arrangement. The uplifting chorus bursts out of
the biddley-diddley synth ostinato underpinning the harsh
vocal treatments of Mr Bell's voice in the verses like
a ray of sunshine breaking through a November cloud.
'Will You Be There' is another corker! (The song would not
have sounded out of place on Sam Sparro's eponymous 2008
debut album). It's the kind of infectious number which
lends itself to waving one's hands in the air mindlessly!
Mrs Wolf and I gave it a go and I tripped over the ironing-
board, which she thought very funny. I have a sore paw!
There are less rumbustious moments however. 'Slow Release' plods
along at a decidedly pedestrian pace. Truth-be-told it's one of
the album's weaker moments but the tinkly keyboard decorations
are pretty enough and Mr Bell's "Woah-Wo-Whaaa" vocal punctuation
is nicely old-fashioned in an 80's kind of way.
Title track 'Non-Stop is much more like it! The big splashing
beat recalls some of Bronski Beat's finer moments and 'DHDQ'
("Debbie Harry Drag Queen" apparently!) is an absolute hoot!
Final track, Mr Farrell's, 'Honey If You Love Him (That's All
That Matters)' is perhaps the album's finest moment. Epic,
wide-screen, technicolour, anachronistically trancendent disco
of the very best kind. Down-and-dirty and deliciously dark!
Dig out that MA-1 jacket, white T-shirt and 501s and boogie!
(Gasp!)
Mr Bell sing. It was Erasure's 1986 Top Of The Pops
debut performing 'Sometimes'. (I still love that song!)
The dancing was decidedly dodgy but the voice was good.
Almost a quarter of a century later and it's still in
splendid shape. Immediately recognisable and solid as a rock.
On 'Non-Stop' Mr Bell has teamed up with Belgian producer
Pascal Gabriel who has a fine pedigree when it comes to the
noble history and finer points of vibrant electro-pop.
There are ten songs in the collection; nine of them
Bell/Gabriel collaborations and one written by and featuring
Perry (ex-Jane's Addiction) Farrell. It's all good stuff
if this is the kind of stuff that you like - and I do.
'Non-Stop' relies on technology more than Mr Bell's last
outing 'Electric Blue' (2005) but still has soul.
Opening track 'Running Out' is a good example of how
to inject some good feeling into an otherwise rather
chilly arrangement. The uplifting chorus bursts out of
the biddley-diddley synth ostinato underpinning the harsh
vocal treatments of Mr Bell's voice in the verses like
a ray of sunshine breaking through a November cloud.
'Will You Be There' is another corker! (The song would not
have sounded out of place on Sam Sparro's eponymous 2008
debut album). It's the kind of infectious number which
lends itself to waving one's hands in the air mindlessly!
Mrs Wolf and I gave it a go and I tripped over the ironing-
board, which she thought very funny. I have a sore paw!
There are less rumbustious moments however. 'Slow Release' plods
along at a decidedly pedestrian pace. Truth-be-told it's one of
the album's weaker moments but the tinkly keyboard decorations
are pretty enough and Mr Bell's "Woah-Wo-Whaaa" vocal punctuation
is nicely old-fashioned in an 80's kind of way.
Title track 'Non-Stop is much more like it! The big splashing
beat recalls some of Bronski Beat's finer moments and 'DHDQ'
("Debbie Harry Drag Queen" apparently!) is an absolute hoot!
Final track, Mr Farrell's, 'Honey If You Love Him (That's All
That Matters)' is perhaps the album's finest moment. Epic,
wide-screen, technicolour, anachronistically trancendent disco
of the very best kind. Down-and-dirty and deliciously dark!
Dig out that MA-1 jacket, white T-shirt and 501s and boogie!
(Gasp!)
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Yet another masterpiece from Andy Bell! I have followed this guy ever since he teamed up with Vincent Clarke to form Erasure and I haven't stopped listening since. I am a big fan!!
Andy has once again delivered! I don't usually like his work on the first listening session. I find it has to grow on me but this, however, hooked me straight in. It is fast beat, uplifting and poppy. Exactly what I want from a modern disco album!
Andy has once again delivered! I don't usually like his work on the first listening session. I find it has to grow on me but this, however, hooked me straight in. It is fast beat, uplifting and poppy. Exactly what I want from a modern disco album!
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A Bell misfire!
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Published 14 months ago by Mr. Michael Butler
A real surprise - very dark (wonderfully so!)
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Published 16 months ago by M. B. Wilson
Good tunes
Not the best album in the world, but a fine mix of pleasant bouncy songs. Just the ticket for a long drive with a car full
Published 17 months ago by Steviebobs
Great
A very good surprise!! I'm an "old" french fan of Erasure, i buy every single from of my favourite band... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Mendi
a waste money
i like erasure and the first cd from andy bell, but it cd has not north. the music is like it hasnt sense, without air.i dont like the cd.
Published 20 months ago by alejandro
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