Entertainment Tonight online has world premiered “Gaudete,”the new video for the first single from Erasure’s forthcoming album Snow Globe, due outNovember 11th via Mute.  The synth-pop icons Vince Clarke and Andy Bell collaborated with Martin Meunier (James & The Giant Peach and Coraline) and Tonya Hurley author of the best-selling ghostgirl and The Blessed series for the dark and beautiful stop-motion animation clip. Watch “Gaudete” here.

Screenshot from the video “Gaudete”

Snow Globe–a collection of original compositions and seasonal classics–follows Erasure’s 2011 album, Tomorrow’s World. The first single “Gaudete” is Erasure’s take on the traditional Latin carol, which will be recognizable by many after Steeleye Span’s version in the early 70’s.

The song was originally programmed by Vince Clarkewith just a drum accompaniment, and he ended up adding keyboard lines to complement the raw rhythmic surge. “I just love the song,” says Andy Bell. “I haven’t actually heard him sing better,” says Vince of Andystepping back into the booth. “I found my inner choirboy again,” says Andy. “I thought I’d lost him but he was there all along.”

Unlike the bells and whistles, glitter and tinsel sets that crowd the market come Christmas-time, Snow Globeis possessed of something more in the wistfully, strangely subdued celebratory mold of recent seasonal albums by Tracey Thorn and Kate Bush.

Formed 28 years ago, Erasure–the award-winning songwriting duo of Vince Clarke andAndy Bell–unleashed on the nation a succession of both influential and chart-topping pop anthems of the ‘80’s, ‘90’s and through today. Songs like “A Little Respect,”“Sometimes,” “Victim Of Love,” “Ship Of Fools,” “Blue Savannah,” “Star,” “Chains Of Love,” “Who Needs Love (Like That),” “Love To Hate You,”  “Drama!,”“Always,” and “Breathe” ensured a formidable presence on the singles charts complemented by five consecutive # 1 albums in the U.K. including The Innocents,Wild!Chorus and the beginning of the worldwide Abba revival Abba-esque.

Check out Billboard magazine’s feature re: Snow Globe here.

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