For the past two decades Erasure has sung of unrequited yearning, producing a sparkling catalogue quickly cited by any advocate of the lush trills, frills, and thrills of synth-pop. The group consists ...

Erasure's January release, Nightbird (Mute), shows that gay techno can indeed by cryogenically frozen, thawed out, and still sound just as fresh (and melodramatic, and cheesy, and splendid) as it was ...