Doublespeak brings together Erasure’s Vince Clarke, Blancmange’s Neil Arthur and synth-auteur Benge for a synth-driven reinvention of eleven songs spanning four decades. Split between post-punk tracks, unheralded gems and pop classics, Doublespeak is the great human songbook, synthesised.

 

Covers include songs from the post-punk netherworld (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.

 

CD in digipak.