An overtly experimental and introspective album, Erasure contains 11 mostly mid-tempo tracks that differed from their past output of shiny, three-minute pop songs.

He concluded, "The overall impression is of Clarke spending endless weeks in his studio fully believing himself to be orbiting Ursa Minor while Bell blubs and bellows his way through the tormented pages of his diary whenever he gets the chance.

He remarked the album was like "a Tim Rice/Andrew Lloyd Webber extravaganza set to an electro beat", "soundtrack music for Star Wars 6" and "handbag techno-pop featuring Bell's I-wanna-be-Judy-Garland impressions".

He singled out "Stay with Me" as the exception, commenting that "you forget about Bell's grating neo-operatic warble and wonder instead at one of those breathtaking chord sequences Clarke seems to contrive every few years".

In September 2022, Erasure announced the re-release of their self-titled 7th album in a special hardback book edition, with a bonus CD of remixes, released on 18 November 2022 through Mute/BMG records.