Wanderlust CD

On 19th October 2018, Blancmange will release a new album of ten songs composed by Neil Arthur, and arranged, coproduced and mixed with Benge WranglerCreep Show at the latters Memetune Studios in Cornwall. This is the pairs third album together following their Fader First Light album in June 2017 and they also collaborated on last years Blancmange opus, Unfurnished Rooms described by Mojo as detached, wistful, touched by computerage unease. The new album is focussed on similar themes but theres a new energy to the approach wistfulness turning to anger dislocation morphing into a powerful desire to be somewhere else, and always a sense of someone fighting for forward motion, dreams, family and the joys of life while seeing, as Arthur puts it, the pretence of a normal world being erased. This spirit is also in the music, which is vital, percussive, full of analogue machinenoise and chunky basslines.