Songs Of Silence, Vince Clarke, LP

Songs of Silence LP by Vince Clarke / Recorded in his home studio in New York, and featuring photography and artwork by the award-winning Magnum photojournalist Eugene Richards, work on the album began as a distraction during lockdown, a chance to finally get his head around the possibilities of Eurorack, a modular synthesiser format famed for it's addictive and limitless configurations. "I could have gone on forever, I could have not stopped," explains Vince, "I was enjoying the process so much and wasn't thinking about anyone else hearing it. But hearing it develop in my studio, in my head, learning new tricks - that's been the best thing about this. I was in a state of shock, actually, when Mute said they wanted to release this album."