Wanderlust by Blancmange

On 19th October 2018 Blancmange released a new album of ten songs composed by Neil Arthur, and arranged, co-produced and mixed with Benge (Wrangler/Creep Show) at the latter’s Memetune Studios in Cornwall.

The album is focussed on similar themes to Unfurnished Rooms (2017) but there’s 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 machine-noise and chunky basslines.

Tracklist

1.	Distant Storm	5:29

2.	In Your Room	3:53

3.	I Smashed Your Phone	4:42

4.	Gravel Drive Syndrome	3:53

5.	Talking To Machines	5:21

6.	Not A Priority	4:30

7.	TV Debate	3:42

8.	Leaves	4:22

9.	White Circle, Black Hole	4:41

10.	Wanderlust	5:28