Yaz(oo)-Upstairs at Eric's (1982 synth-pop) EAC FLAC...reupload

Leaving from Depeche Mode, not yet at the helm of the project that still lives in it today, Erasure, Vince Clarke is close to Alison Moyet (ex-The Vandals) and offers a very nice synthpop patty.

Because Clarke's addiction for analog synthesizers already clearly detected on Speak & Spell of his former colleagues is, this time, much more mastered what is evident from the huge introductory tube, Don't Go, or Kraftwerk meets the soul blue-eyed for a heady melody led beating drums on an electro beat to do Swinging Albion's little whites. It must be said that Alison's creative audience and versatile, warm and delicate voice greatly helps with the imposing task of Yazoo as the #1 competitor of a newcomer Eurythmics (in fact, Yazoo voice can be a model that Lennox and Stewart will draw inspiration for their first popular hit, Sweet Dreams).

And like the rest of the album, a cheerful and cheerful Bad Connection, a midnight full of electronic soul, a claustrophobic, cold and unstructured In My Room, a tender and caressing Only You, the irresistible groove of a Tuesday to the absolute beauty of the hovering Winter Kills, is a fiesta of every moment of the possibilities of a duet in big inspiration, it takes no more to confirm that the critical and popular excitement of the time was indeed justified and that Upstairs at Eric's, though absolutely typical of what we imagine of a synthpop album from the first half of the 80s, has stood admirably by the wear and tear of the years.