LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts) "Make It Wonderful" is an original composition by ERASURE, the award-winning songwriting duo of VINCE CLARKE and ANDY BELL. Watch following the video for their brand new single " Make It Wonderful ," out on February 25, 2014.
The animated video is directed by the team behind their previous video for the traditional Latin carol "Gaudete,"
Martin Meunier and
Tonya Hurley , and mirrors the song's hope and positivity. The exposition involved in a song as open and hopeful as "Make It Wonderful" came easily to ANDY BELL, who explains, "What I love is that Vince managed to add something quite childlike and almost scary to it."
"Make It Wonderful" is taken from the duo's latest album, SNOW GLOBE , a collection of original compositions and seasonal classics.
Unlike the bells and whistles, glitter and tinsel sets that crowd the market come Christmas-time, SNOW GLOBE is possessed of something more in the wistfully, strangely subdued celebratory mold of recent seasonal albums by Tracey Thorn and Kate Bush.
If you haven't already tried it out, visit https://www.snapsapp.com/ to download the application that allows you to photograph yourself inside the
Erasure Snow Globe.
From now until December 24, check in to the
Erasure Information Service for their daily festive countdown to see a host of goodies unveiled: https://www.erasureinfo.com/festive-countdown/ and the band's Spotify channel for a daily Christmas song from Vince & Andy:
Erasure Festive Countdown 2013
Snow
Globe in the press:
"Let's pretend that
Andy Bell has ever been anything other than a holiday singer lying in wait. The way he delivers 'The Christmas Song' on Snow
Globe , the first seasonal album by the long-running British synth-pop duo
Erasure (which consists of Mr. Bell and Vince Clare) is pure holiday slickness, balmy and heartening. There is harsher stuff on this album, like the Terutonic 'Make It Wonderful' - 'See the Northern
Lights as they dance across the sky/They are inspiring/They take your breath away' - or the techno-esque Enigma-recalling version of 'Gaudete,' a Latin traditional. But its standards (apart from 'Silent Night') are odd and sharp, and 'There'll Be No Tomorrow' and the beautiful 'Loving Man' are on par with any of its late-'80s hits." - Jon Caramanica, NEW YORK TIMES , November 29, 2013
"They [Erasure] look to the spirit of the season for redemption, and put their percolating electronics to smart use on a mixed bag of carols, contemporary pop songs (their take on Mel Torme's 'The Christmas Song' is a quirky trip) and five originals." - Randy Lewis, LOS ANGELES TIMES , November 29, 2013
"The veteran duo break the chains of Christmas-music conventions, putting their synth-pop spin on Snow
Globe with both new tunes and freshly arranged traditional.
Andy Bell sings like a choirboy on songs like the lullaby 'Sleep Quietly,' where they also bring some melancholy to the merriment." - Chuck Arnold and Gillian Telling, PEOPLE , December 16, 2013
SNOW GLOBE cover artwork: https://msopr.com/files/snowglobe_cover_square.jpg
SNOW GLOBE is available now at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/snow-globe/id717489056
About ERASURE :
Formed 28 years ago, ERASURE -the award-winning songwriting duo of VINCE CLARKE and ANDY BELL -unleashed on the nation a succession of both influential and chart-topping pop anthems of the '80's, '90's and through today . Songs like "A
Little Respect," "Sometimes," "Victim Of Love," "Ship Of Fools," "Blue Savannah," "Star," "Chains Of Love," "Who Needs Love (Like That)," "Love To Hate You," "Drama!," "Always," and "
Breathe" ensured a formidable presence on the singles charts complemented by five consecutive # 1 albums in the U.K. including The Innocents , Wild! , Chorus and the beginning of the worldwide Abba revival Abba-esque.
