The Peter Pan Effect is the first album released by Robert Marlow

Robert Marlow

Robert Marlow is a synthpop musician and songwriter.-Biography:Robert Marlow grew up in Basildon with future Depeche Mode members Vince Clarke, Martin Gore, and Andy Fletcher. He is also tied to Alison Moyet, with whom he played in a band, The Vandals. He knew Andy and Vince from the Basildon...

. It was released in the summer of 1999, but was recorded 15 years earlier with Vince Clarke

Vince Clarke

Vince Clarke is an English synthpop musician and songwriter. Clarke has been involved with a number of successful groups, including Depeche Mode, Yazoo, The Assembly and Erasure....

 and Eric Radcliffe

Eric Radcliffe

Eric Radcliffe is a recording engineer and producer who worked with New Wave and synthpop bands in the early 1980s in Basildon, England...

, shortly between the break-up of Yazoo

Yazoo (band)

Yazoo are a British synthpop duo from Basildon, Essex. They had a number of Top 10 hits in the UK charts in the early 1980s...

 and the formation of the Assembly

The Assembly

The Assembly were a synthpop project formed in 1983 in Basildon, England by:* Vince Clarke * Eric Radcliffe...

 and Erasure

Erasure

Erasure are an English synthpop duo, consisting of songwriter and keyboardist Vince Clarke and singer Andy Bell. Erasure entered the music scene in 1985 with their debut single "Who Needs Love Like That"...

.

The album was shelved, due to the mediocre sales of the album's singles, and due to lack of interest in the project.

UK/U.S. CD

1. "Calling All Destroyers" – 3:31
2. "Torch Team" – 3:21
3. "The Face of Dorian Gray" – 2:48
4. "Easternize" – 3:33
5. "Life in a Film" – 3:42
6. "The Kiss" – 2:33
7. "That Dangerous Age" – 3:12
8. "Claudette" – 3:34
9. "Ambition" – 3:16
10. "Crying for the Moon" – 2:17
11. "I Just Want to Dance" – 2:53