World Be Gone [Colored Vinyl] [Download Card] [8/18] 8/22/1989 is a ruminative if still

is a ruminative if still uplifting album

Larry Packer (violin)

with its teen protagonist spending a lot of his time listening to cassette mixtapes made by a former classmate who had recently committed suicide

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World Be Gone [Colored Vinyl] [Download Card] [8/18] 8/22/1989 is a ruminative if stillErasure's self produced 17th studio album, World Be Gone finds the duo honing in on a reflective synth pop befitting the wind down portion of the dance. Affected by the political upheaval of the period leading up to its release in the spring of 2017, it features a few calls to action amid selections that are more generally about the need for love. The rousing opener, "Love You to the Sky," is a straight up love song (and classic earworm) that begins