At 56, Depeche Mode bandleader Martin Gore no longer feels the need to pull any lyrical punches. So he gets right to the prickly, political point on the band’s latest Spirit set, starting with its clickety-clacking rhetorical question of a lead single “Where’s the Revolution,” with a grim societal…
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Personal? Jaysus! - A teljes Depeche Mode-interjú (hotpress.com)
Booze! Drugs! Lesbian strippers! One of the biggest rock bands on the planet, Essex synth warriors DEPECHE MODE also used to be amongst the most hedonistic. But on the release of their 14th studio album, Spirit, founding member Andrew ‘Fletch’ Fletcher tells a truly gutted OLAF TYARANSEN that their…
Ötből három csillag - a Musicomh.com Spirit-kritikája
(Columbia) UK release date: 17 March 2017
If music is indeed the soundtrack to our times, then Depeche Mode‘s first album for five years is a suitably bleak one. It’s a post-Brexit, Trumpian world now, and Dave Gahan, Martin Gore and Andy Fletcher obviously aren’t too happy about it. Over the…
Politizálással indul, de gyorsan A Broken Frame-elemzésbe fordul - Martin interjú a thequietus.com oldalról
As Depeche Mode’s principle songwriter looks forward to playing in front of 70,000 people in their biggest ever UK show at the London Stadium, Tim Burrows talks to him about new album Spirit, his Essex roots and what it feels like to grow up as a British European
If there’s one thing Depeche Mode…
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6/10: az Index.hu Spirit-kritikája
Depeche Mode: Spirit (6/10)
Valami tényleg brutálisan elcsesződött a világban, ha már a Depeche Mode sem a meggyötört lélek fekete bőrnadrágban izzadó kozmikus fájdalmára húzza fel a soron következő albumát, hanem több mint harminc év után úgy érzik: ami odakint van, az még annál is több okot ad a…
Andy a nehéz időkről és a U2 felállásáról (!) nyilatkozik egy belga napilapnak (plus.lesoir.be)
Your previous tour has been the most successful sales-wise after the album Delta Machine which was well received from both the press and the public. Was it a surprise for you? We can not be surprised any longer as our entire career has been so succesful. We see younger fans coming along. We are…
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A Depeche Mode szerint elvesztettük a lelkünket - a Trackrecord interjúja Martinnal és Andyvel
Synth-pop pioneers Depeche Mode are back this month with a new album, their first in since 2013: Spirit is out March 17 on Columbia Records. For many fans, the timing of its release is just further proof that the band will only release an album every four years.
That much has been true roughly…
Emberek vagyunk: fedezzük fel a politikus Depeche Mode-ot! (clashmusic.com)
Depeche Mode, ‘Where's The Revolution?’, 2017Within the first bar, you know you're into familiar Depeche Mode territory. A stentorian, commanding voice, a skeletal modular synth pattern and scratchy rhythm evolving into a electro-glam beat overlaid with bluesy processed guitar. ‘Where's The…