Breathe (Erasure song)

Infobox Single
Name = Breathe


Artist = Erasure
from Album = Nightbird
B-side = "Gone Crazy"
Released = January 3, 2005
Format = CD Single
DVD single
digital download
Recorded = 2004
Genre = Synth pop
Length = 03:49
Label = Mute Records
Writer = Vince Clarke,
Andy Bell
Producer = Erasure
Last single = "Oh L'amour (August Mix)" (2004)
This single = "Breathe" (2005)
Next single = "Don't Say You Love Me" (2005)

"Breathe" is a song by British synth pop duo Erasure. It was released by Mute Records in the UK and the U.S. as the first single from the band's eleventh studio album "Nightbird".

Written and produced by Vince Clarke and Andy Bell, the track is a mid-tempo love song similar in musical style to their 1994 hit "Always", albeit with more uplifting lyrical content. "Breathe" was remixed slightly for its radio version — most notably in the song's introduction. The UK compact disc single included CD-ROM information that allowed buyers to download the Digipro software package and use isolated musical tracks of "Breathe" to create their own remixes. For a time fans were able to upload their finished "Breathe" remixes to Erasure's website to share with others.

The single was widely regarded as a major return to form by critics and fans alike, leading to comparisons to Erasure's glory days of the late 1980's and early 1990's, when "The Innocents" and "Chorus" both topped the UK album charts.

"Breathe" also resonated with the record-buying public and hit number four on the UK singles chart, Erasure's highest-charting UK single since "Always" a decade earlier. In the United States, Erasure entered the Hot Dance Club Play chart for the first time in eight years and scored their second U.S. dance chart-topper — the first being "Victim of Love" in 1987. In Germany, "Breathe" was Erasure's twentieth Top 40 single, peaking at number thirty-five. It topped the singles chart in Denmark.

Track listings

CD single #1 (CDMUTE330)

# "Breathe"
# "Gone Crazy"

CD single #2 (LCDMUTE330)

# "Breathe" (LMC Extended Club Mix)
# "Breathe" (When Andy Bell Met Manhattan Clique Extended Remix)
# "Breathe" (Acoustic Version)
# CD-ROM: "Breathe" (PC Digipro Remix software)

US CD Maxi Single (Catalog #9259-2)

# "Breathe" (Radio Version)
# "Breathe" (Album Version)
# "Gone Crazy"
# "Mr. Gribber and His Amazing Cat"
# "Breathe" (Acoustic Version)
# "Breathe" (Pete Heller's Phela Mix)
# "Breathe" (LMC Extended Club Mix)
# "Breathe" (When Andy Bell Met Manhattan Clique Extended Remix)
# Video: "Breathe"

DVD single (DVDMUTE330)

# "Breathe" (Radio Version)
# "Mr. Gribber and His Amazing Cat"
# Video: "Breathe"

Digital download (iMUTE330)

# "Breathe" (Radio Version)