In Brief
* Erasure, “Erasure,” Elektra. Three years after Erasure’s greatest hits album (“Pop”), this unabashedly camp British duo resurfaces with the promise of evolution (this latest is co-produced by Thomas Fehlman of the ever-futuristic Orb). No such luck. Same old happy-go-Casio schlock here, with lyrics so syrupy you might gain weight. Erasure seems to be having fun reliving the ‘80s--even if the rest of us would rather not go there.
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