Loveboat

by Erasure

Loveboat cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 23 October 2000
  • Label: Mute
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 44:48
  • Community rating: 2.78/5 from 1 rating

Artists on this release: Flood, Intro, Son Ripoll, Ray Staff, Clarke/Bell, Rob Kirwan

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Erasure's ninth studio album, 'Loveboat' tempers the duo's synthpop with acoustic instrumentation and downtempo pacing across eleven tracks, produced by Vince Clarke and Andy Bell with Flood. Written in a romantic, melancholic register and introduced by the single 'Freedom', it is a record whose American release was shelved for three years.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, melodic, synthesizers, acoustic, downtempo

Tracklist

  1. Freedom (3:09)
  2. Where In the World (3:48)
  3. Crying in the Rain (3:49)
  4. Perchance to Dream (4:37)
  5. Alien (4:32)
  6. Mad as We Are (3:50)
  7. Here In My Heart (3:43)
  8. Love Is the Rage (4:10)
  9. Catch 22 (3:36)
  10. Moon and the Sky (4:23)
  11. Surreal (5:11)

Credits

  • Martin Gardiner - cgi artist [computer graphics]
  • Ebby Acquah - recorded by [37b], technician [mix assisted by]
  • Intro - design
  • Ben Hillier - engineer [additional]
  • Ray Staff - mastered by
  • Rob Kirwan - mixed by
  • Flood - producer
  • Son Ripoll - recorded by
  • Clarke/Bell - written-by

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