Andy Bell
Ten Crowns
Release Date: May 2, 2025
Genre(s): Electronic, Pop/Rock, Club/Dance
Record label: Crown Recordings
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Album Review: Ten Crowns by Andy Bell
Fairly Good, Based on 2 Critics
Based on rating 3
Erasure’s singer romps through euphoric Eurodisco and gospel on his third solo album, and lines up a guest star spot for Debbie Harry An Andy Bell solo album has always felt slightly jarring in the past. When your voice is so inextricably linked with Erasure, one of the biggest synth-pop bands of recent times, it’s hard to readjust to a solo performance. It’s like Neil Tennant singing away with no sign of a grumpy-looking bloke in a baseball cap lurking next to him.
Opinion: Excellent
Forty years at the top in pop is not to be sniffed at. And if you've got thirty-five Top 40 hits and five chart-topping albums under your belt to show for it, then you move into the territory of having 'national treasure' attached to your name. Truth is, Andy Bell (the Erasure one, not the Ride/Oasis one - easy to tell apart as one is a flamboyant entertainer known for occasionally wearing rubber leotards, and the other one is half of Erasure) is somewhat more than that.
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