Abba-esque [4 Track EP] [EP]

Performer: Erasure
Artist: MC Kinky
Engineer: Dave Bascombe
Producer: Dave Bascombe
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: ABBA-ESQUE is a collection of covers of Abba songs. Personnel includes: MC Kinky (rap vocals). Recorded in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Personnel: MC Kinky (rap vocals). Recording information: Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Konk Studios, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Photographer: Lewis Mulatero. It's hard to tell if this utterly delightful 1992 EP started the mid-'90s ABBA revival or merely foreshadowed it, but either way, it's Erasure's lightest, silliest, fluffiest and most immediately endearing work. Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus were master pop songwriters, and the fact that their lush, almost orchestral pop songs adapt so well to '90s dance-floor electronica--even MC Kinky's reggae-tinged rap in the middle of "Take a Chance on Me" sounds perfectly appropriate--proves that these songs are deathless pop classics. The sweeping "S.O.S." is perhaps the best of the lot, but Andy Bell's dramatic readings of "Lay All Your Love on Me" and the disco-tinged "Voulez-Vous" are nearly its equal. Note: ABBA tribute band Bjorn Again later released a complementary EP of Erasure covers called ERASURE-ISH.

Entertainment Weekly (9/11/92, p.88) - "...[a] delicious EP....a frothy testimonial that has its tongue in the right place..." - Rating: B+ Village Voice (3/2/93, p.5) - Ranked #10 in the Village Voice's list of the 10 Best EPs Of 1992.

After founding seminal synth-pop outfits Depeche Mode and Yaz, Vince Clarke joined forces with singer Andy Bell in the mid-1980s to form Erasure, combining Clarke's melodic electro-pop pedigree with a more danceable approach. The duo scored numerous hits throughout the second half of the '80s. Though their chart presence diminished somewhat in the '90s, the pair continued tenaciously into the 21st century. Latter-day releases found Erasure saluting their influences, with an EP of Abba tunes in '92 and a covers album, OTHER PEOPLE'S SONGS, in 2003.

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