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PB: Why was there a five and a half year wait between your last album ‘The Turn’ and ‘the minutes’?ĪM: It gets trickier to make records when you get to this stage of your career. With this knowledge to hand, Pennyblackmusic spoke to Alison about the record, and asked what exactly the inspiration that led to its creation was. She has a new electronica-fuelled album entitled ‘the minutes’on Cooking Vinyl, which quite simply put may be the best record she has recorded since her debut with Yazoo. Since the incredible success of ‘Alf’ and its 1987 lacklustre follow-up ‘Raindancing’, Alison has continued to make music for both major and independent record labels with varying levels of success, and now is embarking on a fresh leg of her musical journey. In 1984 my 10 year old music-obsessed self was addicted to Moyet’s debut album ‘Alf’, and I played the vinyl so often that when I scratched the majority of the second side by accidentally standing on it my mum paid for a new copy when she saw how upset I was. Whilst Yazoo burned brightly, they only lasted for a couple of albums and after they disbanded both Vince and Alison propelled themselves into work, Clarke with Erasure and Moyet with her solo career which is where I came into the fray. Clarke, who had recently left Depeche Mode, found in Alison the voice he didn’t even realise he was looking for and Yazoo was born.
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Growing up as a rebel outsider in Basildon, Essex, the young Alison Moyet played in a handful of local punk bands until a chance vocal session with Vince Clarke reaped massive rewards.