ERASURE - Chorus (Sire)
Apr. 21st, 2004 02:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
No idea how the term "synth-pop" sounded to those who used it when it
first arose. Now it's a genre, a style with its own canon, but surely
ONCE it had some flavor of "other styles of music played with synthetic
instruments"? I don't know. I didn't get how that worked when I was 13
and so Erasure's gospel touches confused me as much as they, perhaps
subliminally, put me off.
With this record Erasure 'did' dance music in way that my casual exposure (a little radio, and a greatest-hits collection I found cheap) suggests they didn't before or after. But they've put out a lot of records since I stopped paying attention, so I don't know.
Actually, now that I think about it, Erasure may have been the first band I ever gave up on! The Innocents was the second record I ever bought with my own money; I liked it, but I had definitely discarded the idea of getting further Erasure albums before the next time I encountered anything even somewhat disillusioning (which would have been, I think, Adrian Belew's Mr. Music Head).