Oh, l’amour! Andy Bell is back with a brand new solo offering. The Erasure frontman is releasing the techno-tinged Non–Stop (Mute) this week. The LP was co-produced by Bell and Pascal Gabriel (Kylie Minogue, Ladyhawke, Miss Kittin, Little Boots). Gabriel also helmed Bell’s previous releases as Mimó. Non-Stop‘s first single, “Call On Me,” pulses with a glittering electronic beat and features heavily processed vocals with an Italo-disco flair. It’s quite a departure from the romantic, falsetto-driven synth pop of Erasure, drawing inspiration from soul, techno, Tin Pan Alley and even opera. Bell will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with him.
Bell: On matters of the occult, I am rather partial to the odd tarot-card reading every now and then or visiting so-called psychics. The thing is, usually you are in a vulnerable state when you go to see them, and they can tell you things that I take literally, being the gullible soul that I am. Anyway, one horrible lady in New York told me that I had a malevolent spirit attached to me that had been passed dawn through my great grandpa who’d never been happy in love and that I would suffer the same consequences! Lucky for me, when I had my hips replaced, I went to a lovely retreat where I learnt my reiki one and two, and thankfully the lovely Carole Easton, who’s into angelic energy, etc., did some divination and asked whether this was true. The answer came back: “No it wasn’t true, and the lady meant no harm by saying it.”
Video after the jump.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRc4LkBRjIc
