Erasure's best album (The Innocents - Erasure)

Member Name: ajaybee

Product:	The Innocents - Erasure
Date:	26/03/01 (35 review reads)
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Advantages: Simple, unashamed pop music

Disadvantages: n/a

The Innocents typifies exactly what Erasure are all about - simple, glorious three-minute pop tunes, no strings attached. Andy Bell and Vince Clarke do it best on this album, which is so full of likeable songs that any single one of them could be a single. 'A Little Respect' was the lead single, and remains a classic Erasure track; 'Ship Of Fools' is melancholy electronica, 'Chains of Love' a further widely-known pop classic.

All three of these titles were big hit singles in the UK, but the album holds further gems - 'Heart Of Stone' and 'Weight Of The World' are amongst Erasure's best works to date and deserved to be more widely appreciated.

Letting the album down are an unnecessary cover of 'River Deep Mountain High' which fails to hit the mark, and an instrumental track, 'Sixty-Five Thousand', which can only be described as bizarre, and indeed rather pointless.

These aside any true lovers of pop music should really have this album. Unlike most 80s music, this sounds as fresh and (relatively) modern as anything being produced today.

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