DOUBLESPEAK – DoubleSpeak - LP

DOUBLESPEAK – DoubleSpeak - LP

140 grams Black Vinyl, 33 mm spine sleeve, printed inner sleeve, marketing sticker.
Depeche Mode/Yazoo/Erasure’s Vince Clarke, Blancmange’s Neil Arthur and the electronic producer-writer-synth-nerd Benge have joined forces to form the new project Doublespeak.
 
Their self-titled debut album revisits eleven of their favourite songs from the past four decades, each reimagined and renewed in the timeless space of gleaming analogue electronica.
The ‘Doublespeak’ album is divided between songs from the postpunk netherworld brought blinking into the light (Fad Gadget, The Sound, Young Marble Giants), pop radio monsters ushered back down a dark stairway into the club (ABBA, David Essex, The Carpenters) and buried treasures from the 1990s onwards (The Magnetic Fields, Ed Dowie and Laptop).

Collectively, the album amounts to a shadow autobiography of the three collaborators’ continuing musical education. Doublespeak is the great human songbook, synthesised.
Empathic vocals, bold arrangements and glowing analogue electronics turn familiar and forgotten songs into a personal, forward-looking electronic statement.

Tracklist:

Side A:
01 Back to Nature (originally by Fad Gadget)
02 Brand New Life (originally by Young Marble Giants)
03 The Visitors (originally by ABBA)
04 I can’t Escape Myself (originally by The Sound)
05 Goodbye to Love (originally by Carpenters)
 
Side B:
01 Rock On (originally by David Essex)
02 Smoke and Mirrors (originally by The Magnetic Fields)
03 Day Breaks, Night Heals (originally by Thomas Leer, Robert Rental)
04 Gentle on My Mind (originally by John Hartford)
05 Richard! (originally by Ed Dowie)
06 End Credits (originally by Laptop)