Union Street (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Union Street
Type = Album
Artist = Erasure


Released = April 3 2006
Recorded = 2003
Genre = Acoustic
Length = 43:27
Label = Mute Records
Producer = Erasure
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|2.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:h03gtq0zcu42 link]
Last album = "Nightbird"
(2005)
This album = "Union Street"
(2006)
Next album = "Acoustic Live"
(2006)

"Union Street" (CDSTUMM235) is the title of the twelfth album by Erasure. Announced on their [http://www.erasureinfo.com/releases/albums/unionstreet.html website] in November 2005, "Union Street" was released on April 3 2006 in the UK and on April 18 2006 in the U.S. by Mute Records.

This album contains past Erasure songs, "re-interpreted in an acoustic or country & western style". The album was preceded in the UK and the U.S. by the four-track "Boy EP" on March 20 and April 4, respectively. "Boy EP" is not eligible for the UK singles chart and was released to U.S. markets as a download-only.

As they did with "The Erasure Show" tour in 2005, Erasure has partnered with music distribution company Live Here Now to record and manufacture limited-edition CDs and MP3s of concert dates on the acoustic tour which promotes "Union Street" [http://www.liveherenow.co.uk/artist/erasureacoustic/] .

Track listing

All songs written by Vince Clarke and Andy Bell.

"Union Street"

# "Boy" (originally from "Cowboy")
# "Piano Song" (originally from "Wild!")
# "Stay with Me" (originally from "Erasure")
# "Spiralling" (originally from "The Circus")
# "Home" (originally from "Chorus")
# "Tenderest Moments" (originally a B-side from "Run to the Sun" single)
# "Alien" (originally from "Loveboat")
# "Blues Away" (originally from "I Say I Say I Say")
# "How Many Times" (originally from "Wild!")
# "Love Affair" (originally from "Cowboy")
# "Rock Me Gently" (originally from "Erasure")