ANDY BELL TEN CROWNS
CROWN RECORDINGS
Elsewhere in this issue, Andy Bell swears it’s a coincidence that his new album arrives both 20 years after his debut solo LP Electric Blue, and that Ten Crowns was made while he turned 60.
It’s a plausible denial, as there’s nothing to Bell’s third solo album that marks it out as dramatically opposed to Erasure. Lyrically, the abstract poetry of The Neon’s companion album Day-Glo is more experimental, while these largely hyper-pop moments would fit just fine alongside any Erasure album from Wild! to The Violet Flame.