Editing Erasure (duo) (section)

===Releases 2009–2019===
''[[Total Pop! The First 40 Hits]]'', a collection of Erasure's first 40 hits plus a new remix of "Always" by Jeremy Wheatley, was released on 23 February 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=37097_0_2_0_C |title=Erasure to release 'Total Pop! The First 40 Hits' |publisher=Side-line.com |access-date=16 April 2012}}</ref> The compilation fractionally missed the UK top 20, reaching number 21.

On 10 August 2009, Erasure released a six-track EP of classic remixes entitled ''[[Erasure.Club]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=43209_0_2_0_C |title=Promo-only remixes of Erasure see light of day on 'Erasure.Club' MCD |publisher=Side-line.com |date=22 February 1999}}</ref>

To celebrate 21 years since its release, the album ''The Innocents'' (1988) was remastered and re-released on 26 October 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.erasureinfo.com/news/index.html|title=Erasure &bull; News &bull; 2009 News|date=20 May 2009|publisher=The Erasure Information Service|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080115204515/http://www.erasureinfo.com/news/index.html|archive-date=15 January 2008}}</ref>

Andy Bell released his second solo studio album, ''[[Non-Stop (Andy Bell album)|Non-Stop]]'', on 7 June 2010.

In February and March 2010, the song "[[Always (Erasure song)|Always]]" enjoyed an unexpected peak of popularity among [[Browser game|flash-game]] players for its prominent role as the soundtrack of the [[Adult Swim]] game ''[[Robot Unicorn Attack]]''.

Vince Clarke stated in radio interviews that the band wanted to complete the concept album of [[nursery rhymes]] that they had been working on for some time.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.erasure.ru/eng/interview08.html |title=Interview with Erasure |publisher=Erasure.ru |date=5 October 2007|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316134730/http://www.erasure.ru/eng/interview08.html |archive-date=16 March 2012}}</ref> 
On 16 December 2010, Erasure's official website announced a new studio album planned for release in summer 2011 to be produced by [[Frankmusik]]. Also, a world tour was announced (including the [[Ultra Music Festival]] in Miami, Florida in March 2011 and the Total Pop! Forest Tour of the UK in June and July 2011) with dates including stops in Europe and South America.

Erasure played a 27-date US and Canada tour, as well as at [[Estadio Monumental "U"]] in [[Lima]], Peru on 18 August. The Tomorrow's World Tour began on 31 August 2011 in Tampa, continuing through September, and finished in Seattle on 6 October 2011. The UK and European leg of the Tomorrow's World tour began on 12 October 2011 in Leicester, UK, continuing through to 14 November 2011 in Dresden, Germany.

[[File:Erasure - Fill Us With Fire.ogv|thumb|left|A music video of the Erasure song "[[Fill Us with Fire]]"]]
On 20 June 2011, it was confirmed via their official website that their new studio album was to be called ''[[Tomorrow's World (album)|Tomorrow's World]]''. This album was released on 3 October 2011 (11 October 2011 in the US). The first single from the album was "[[When I Start To (Break It All Down)]]".  The album reached number 29 in the UK, number 35 in Germany and number 61 in the US.  The second single from ''Tomorrow's World'', "[[Be with You (Erasure song)|Be with You]]", peaked in the top 10 on the US [[Hot Dance Club Songs]] chart, making it their highest peak since "Breathe" in 2005.  The third and final single from the album, "[[Fill Us with Fire]]" was released on 12 March 2012.

Erasure toured internationally in 2011; it was one of their longest tours and included visits to some places for the first time, including Russia and Ukraine. They also did a whole South American Tour, including two shows in Buenos Aires, where they last performed in 1997 during the Cowboy Tour.
[[Image:Erasure,_Live_at_Delamere_Forest.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Vince Clarke and Andy Bell onstage, 2011]]

On 11 November 2013, Erasure released their first Christmas album, ''[[Snow Globe (album)|Snow Globe]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.erasureinfo.com/erasure-announce-new-album-snow-globe/|title=ERASURE ANNOUNCE 'SNOW GLOBE' ALBUM|publisher=erasureinfo.com |date=9 September 2013}}</ref> The first single from the album was a cover of the 1973 [[Steeleye Span]] track "[[Gaudete]]" which was available as a digital download from 28 October, in advance of the single's full release as a CD and download bundle on 9 December. The track was available in the US on 29 October.

On 27 May 2014, Erasure announced their sixteenth studio album for a September 2014 release, a 10-track record titled ''[[The Violet Flame]]''. Released on 22 September 2014 and produced by [[Richard X]], it entered the [[UK Albums Chart]] at number 20, giving the duo their first top 20 album since ''[[Other People's Songs]]'' in 2003.

In October 2015, in order to celebrate their 30 years in the music industry, Erasure released an updated version of "Sometimes" as a single and a new compilation album entitled ''[[Always: The Very Best of Erasure]]''. Release dates were 23 October and 30 October 2015.

On 29 July 2016, Erasure announced that they would be continuing their special series of releases to mark their 30th anniversary with the autumn release of an anthology box-set entitled ''[[From Moscow to Mars]]''.

On 23 February 2017, Erasure announced that their seventeenth studio album would be titled ''[[World Be Gone]]'' and would be released via Mute on 19 May 2017. To mark the release, the band would headline three UK shows at Glasgow's [[O2 Academy Glasgow|O<sub>2</sub> Academy Glasgow]] on 27 May 2017, Manchester's [[Albert Hall, Manchester|Albert Hall]] on 28 May 2017 and London's [[Roundhouse (venue)|Roundhouse]] on 29 May 2017 before embarking on a four-month European tour as special guests of [[Robbie Williams]] in June, July, August and September.

In March 2018, the album ''World Beyond'' was announced, a re-recording of Erasure's previous year's ''World Be Gone'' in a post-classical garb. It was recorded in ten days by Andy Bell and seven musicians from the Brussels-based ensemble Echo Collective. Erasure's album ''World Beyond'' then debuted at No. 1 on the ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' Classical Albums and Classical Crossover Albums charts dated 24 March 2018.