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Crackers International was bettered in 1992 by another EP, Abba-esque, covering four ABBA hits, which became Erasure's first (and to date only) number one in the UK Singles Chart. It featured a memorable video of the duo dressed in ABBA outfits, and was one of the principal drivers of the ABBA revival scene in the 1990s. Also in 1990, Erasure contributed the song "Too Darn Hot" to the Cole Porter tribute album "Red Hot + Blue" produced by the Red Hot Organization. Later that year, a singles compilation...

It's hard to tell if this utterly delightful 1992 EP started the mid-'90s ABBA revival or merely foreshadowed it, but either way, it's Erasure's lightest, silliest, fluffiest and most immediately endearing work. Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus were master pop songwriters, and the fact that their lush, almost orchestral pop songs adapt so well to '90s dance-floor electronica--even MC Kinky's reggae-tinged rap in the middle of "Take a Chance on Me" sounds perfectly appropriate--proves that these...