Depeche Mode's new album, Spirit, is due out in the spring of 2017. It's a follow-up to their previous studio album, Delta Machine, which came out in 2013. It will also follow on the heels of their Video Singles Collection, a career-spanning anthology of music videos that's due out next month.…

Depeche Mode haven't released an artistically resonant album in a very long while. Since the low-key efforts of 1997's Ultra, it seems the band have been content capitalizing on their few self-defining signifiers instead of trying to explore uncharted territories. In other words, their relevance in…