Vince Clarke (Erasure), Neil Arthur (Blancmange), and Benge have a new project, Doublespeak, and their self-titled debut is out on May 29. It reimagines 11 of their favourite songs from the past four decades, and the first single is their rendition of Fad Gadget’s “Back To The Nature.”
Their self-titled debut album sees them put a new electronica feel on tracks from ABBA, The Carpenters, Young Marble Giants and more, as they share their cover of Fad Gadget’s ‘Back To The Nature’
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).
The roots of the new synth pop supergroup group stem back to 2017, when Arthur – who had already recorded a track for Vince Clarke’s project, The Assembly – suggested that the two join forces to put a unique spin on some of their favourite songs from the past four decades.
They then brought Benge into the line-up, following him collaborating with Arthur on the Fader project and also working with the musician by co-producing six Blancmange albums.
They are set to release their self-titled debut album – which sees them reimagine a selection of classic and cult songs with a new analogue electronica feel – on May 29th.
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