- synth-pop
- 54 min
- 13 tracks
- Mute
The Circus is the second studio album by the English synth-pop duo Erasure, released on 30 March 1987 by Mute Records in Germany and the United Kingdom and on 7 July 1987 by Sire Records in the United States. It was Erasure's second consecutive album to be produced by Flood.
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Classical in form, spare, character-led and warm.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
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Tracks
- 1It Doesn't Have to Be3:57
- 2Hideaway3:49
- 3Don't Dance3:39
- 4If I Could3:53
- 5Sexuality3:54
- 6Victim of Love3:42
- 7Leave Me to Bleed3:23
- 8Sometimes3:40
- 9The Circus5:31
- 10Spiralling3:10
- 11In the Hall of the Mountain King2:59
- 12Sometimes (12" mix)5:25
- 13It Doesn't Have to Be (12" mix)7:19
13 tracks, 54 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Erasure
- Label
- Mute
- Released
- 1987
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- DE
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