Andy Bell chats to ilikemusic.com

ILM: Do you find the process of writing songs cathartic? And can you describe the Erasure process of making music?

Andy: It's quite strange really writing things. It's quite bitty. Sometimes you'll get a whole song out in one go, which are usually the best songs. We've written songs for an album hopefully next year, and it's quite interesting how sometimes some of the melodies are strange because once they're written you can't believe you wrote it, because it sounds like a song already. Then you piece it together. It's kind of like a jigsaw that doesn't fit, and you make it fit together. I haven't written the words yet for the melody I'm working on, but then when the words are finished and the song and the music is done, it's almost like it bears no resemblance to the original tune. The different stages of the song are almost like completely different songs in themselves.
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