The first Doublespeak album brings together Erasure’s Vince Clarke, Blancmange’s Neil Arthur and synth-auteur Benge for a sleek, synth-driven reinvention of eleven songs spanning four decades.
Features covers of tracks by Fad Gadget, Young Marble Giants, ABBA, The Sound, Carpenters, David Essex, The Magnetic Fields, Thomas Leer and Robert Rental, John Hartford, Ed Dowie and Laptop.
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).