Warning: CONTEST to win your own copy after the jump
Put down the glowsticks, Union Street is not your drag-mother's Erasure.
As a young closeted Hoosier, Erasure was something that called out to me, telling me of a world beyond my own. Andy Bell and Vince Clarke created melodies that were siren songs to my gay youth. With Union Street, strangely, they beckon me back to my youth of acoustic bluegrass and country music (not the muscle-y Shania Twain on cocaine country of today, but the roots of that music).
Where the typical MTV-style "Unplugged" album would take the "Best Of" hits and replug them with a full orchestration, Union Street is more ambitious taking more obscure tracks and featuring mostly the chior-boy vocals of Andy Bell. By de-hyping and de-electrifying the tracks the synergy shared in the melancholy of electronica and country is explored nicely.
After the jump, listen to a track, read the full track listing, and enter the CONTEST for a free copy of Union Street.
UNION STREET TRACKLISTING
- Boy (from the album Cowboy) click to listen
- Piano Song (from the album Wild!)
- Stay With Me (from the album Erasure)
- Spiralling (from the album The Circus)
- Home (from the album Chorus)
- Tenderest Moments (Run To The Sun B Side)
- Alien (from the album Loveboat)
- Blues Away (from the album I Say I Say I Say)
- How Many Times? (from the album Wild!)
- Love Affair (from the album Cowboy)
- Rock Me Gently (from the album Erasure)
CONTEST:
Get your own copy of Union Street
Enter in the comments section one line of any Erasure lyric.
Winner will be chosen at random.
- You must include someway that I can notify you that you have won.
- Only good for US residents.
