Editing Erasure (duo) (section)

==Musical style==
Erasure's music has been described as [[electropop]],<ref name="Boston"/><ref name="steve">{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-08-08-ca-42-story.html|title=No Errors for Erasure at the Hollywood Palladium|first=Steve|last=Hochman|date=8 August 1988|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref><ref name="NME">{{cite magazine |last=Maconie |first=Stuart |author-link=Stuart Maconie |date=15 June 1991 |title=Mein Camp |magazine=[[New Musical Express]] |page=34 |url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/nothingelseon/52379230131/in/album-72177720302283472/}}</ref> [[synth-pop]],<ref name="auto2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/erasure-mn0000184811/biography|title=Erasure Biography, Songs, & Albums|website=[[AllMusic]]|author=[[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]]}}</ref><ref name="wapo">{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|title=Erasure Rubs 9:30 Crowd Right Way|last=Jenkins|first=Mark|date=7 June 2005|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2005/06/08/erasure-rubs-930-crowd-right-way/e5f85b73-1799-4ff0-ab05-49b02b1d4180/}}</ref> [[dance-pop]],<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/erasure-tackles-other-peoples-songs-73659/|title=Erasure Tackles 'Other People's Songs'|magazine=Billboard|date=29 October 2002}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/entertainment_life/music/erasure-s-new-album-is-masterfully-crafted-dance-pop/article_0c39602a-acc3-5e1d-a4ab-48de9ca607b8.html|title=Erasure's new album is masterfully crafted dance pop|first=John|last=Wirt|date=26 October 2014|website=The Advocate}}</ref> [[hi-NRG]],<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/21/arts/reviews-pop-of-broken-hearts-and-a-broken-world.html |first= Jon |last= Pareles |title= Reviews/Pop; Of Broken Hearts and a Broken World |quote= Many of Erasure's songs exemplify the post-disco style called hi-N.R.G. -fast and openly artificial, with synthesized riffs bouncing and ticking in every register. |newspaper= The New York Times |date= 21 February 1990 |access-date= 31 March 2015}}</ref><ref name="times">{{cite news|url= https://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/music/article2416318.ece |title= Erasure – Pop |newspaper= [[The Times]] |date= 29 January 2005 |access-date= 31 March 2015}}</ref> [[disco]],<ref name="steve"/><ref name="NME"/><ref name="wapo"/><ref name="times"/><ref>{{cite web|website=[[SFGate]]|url=https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/pop-music-disco-duo-2628210.php|title=POP MUSIC / Disco duo|last=Chonin|first=Neva|date=16 March 2003}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|website=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/fameandfortune/11051546/Erasures-Andy-Bell-My-house-in-Spain-is-the-biggest-financial-drain.html?onwardjourney=584162_c1|title=Erasure's Andy Bell: 'My house in Spain is the biggest financial drain'|last=Rees|first=Caroline|date=24 August 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1992/12/11/erasures-coming-out/397e14d8-d4ad-42a3-acfd-b71ef442b1c6/|title= ERASURE'S COMING OUT|last=Brown|first=Joe|date=11 December 1992}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-06-18-ca-249-story.html|title=Capering Andy Bell Leads Erasure Through Zesty Evening|last=Boehm|first=Mike|date=18 June 1990}}</ref> and [[New wave music|new wave]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://culture.affinitymagazine.us/review-erasures-the-neon-proves-new-wave-is-alive-and-well/|title=Review: Erasure's 'The Neon' Proves New Wave is Alive and Well|date=31 August 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mancunion.com/2014/12/05/live-erasure/|title=Live: Erasure|date=5 December 2014|website=[[The Mancunion]]}}</ref> According to [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] of [[AllMusic]], the group's style, like Vince Clarke's previous groups [[Depeche Mode]] and [[Yazoo (band)|Yazoo]], is "synth-based, but with stronger, more [[House music|house]]-oriented dance inclinations, as well as a sharp, accessible sense of [[pop music|pop]] songcraft".<ref name="auto2"/> ''[[The Washington Post]]'' wrote that Erasure's music "combines synth-pop, disco, [[cabaret]], [[comic opera|light opera]] and a bit of English choirboy sound."<ref name="wapo"/> In a 1991 feature for the [[New Musical Express]], [[Stuart Maconie]] described their music as "exuberantly [[Camp (style)|camp]] disco pop".<ref name="NME"/>