Erasure have just released their much anticipated new studio album Snow Globe – a collection of original compositions and seasonal classics.

ERASURE - Snow Globe album (2013)



The album will be preceded by its first single, Gaudete, Erasure’s distinctive take on the Medieval Latin carol, which was also a folk hit for Steeleye Span in 1973.

‘I haven’t actually heard him sing better,’ says Vince of Andy stepping back into the booth. ‘I found my inner choirboy again,’ says Andy. ‘I thought I’d lost him but he was there all along.’

Unlike the bells and whistles, glitter and tinsel sets that crowd the market come Christmas-time, Snow Globe is possessed of something more in the wistfully, strangely subdued celebratory mould of recent seasonal albums by Tracey Thorn and Kate Bush. ‘We managed to strip everything back to bare essentials,’ Vince says approvingly of the minimal approach Erasure took for this recording. ‘White Christmas almost has a drone all the way through it. I love that.’

Snow Globe will be released as a standard CD, via digital download and as a limited edition box-set.

SNOW GLOBE – CD EDITION

ERASURE - Snow Globe album (2013)

TRACKLISTING
Bells Of Love (Isabelle’s of Love) / Gaudete / Make It Wonderful / Sleep Quietly / Silent Night / Loving Man / The Christmas Song / Bleak Midwinter / Blood On The Snow / There’ll Be No Tomorrow / Midnight Clear / White Christmas / Silver Bells

SNOW GLOBE – DOWNLOAD EDITION

ERASURE - Snow Globe album (2013)

TRACKLISTING
Bells Of Love (Isabelle’s of Love) / Gaudete / Make It Wonderful / Sleep Quietly / Silent Night / Loving Man / The Christmas Song / Bleak Midwinter / Blood On The Snow / There’ll Be No Tomorrow / Midnight Clear / White Christmas / Silver Bells

LIMITED EDITION 3-CD BOXSET (PRE-ORDER ONLY)

This limited-edition EIS box-set will consist of three CDs packaged in a presentation box alongside a Christmas card (signed by both Vince and Andy), a festive tree bauble, a desktop calendar, a set of ‘Snow Globe’ postcards and more items that we’re still working on!

ERASURE - Snow Globe album (2013)

TRACKLISTING

CD1 – Bells Of Love (Isabelle’s of Love) / Gaudete / Make It Wonderful / Sleep Quietly / Silent Night / Loving Man / The Christmas Song / Bleak Midwinter / Blood On The Snow / There’ll Be No Tomorrow / Midnight Clear / White Christmas / Silver Bells

CD2 – Gaudete (A Cappella Version) / Stop The Cavalry (Acoustic Version) / Silent Night (Instrumental Version) / She Won’t Be Home (2013 Redux) / Make It Wonderful (Acoustic Version) / God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (2013 Redux) / White Christmas (Instrumental Version) / Yes Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus (spoken word piece)

CD3 – The Erasure Christmas Radio Show (Recorded Live Inside The Snow Globe)

THIS CHRISTMAS… MAKE IT WONDERFUL!