A politicised return, unafraid to look afresh at the band's sound and approach... “We’re fucked,” sings Martin Gore on ‘Fail’, the final track on the new Depeche Mode album ‘Spirit’. It’s not exactly the uplifting, elegiac ending to an album that one is badly in need…

Dave Gahan, Martin Gore and Andy Fletcher return this spring with Depeche Mode‘s 14th album and second for Columbia, Spirit. Four years on from the chart-topping success of Delta Machine, the new work sprawls across 12 tracks that were produced by James Ford, aka half of Simian Mobile Disco, whose…

Julian Marszalek went to the Spiritland bar in Kings Cross to listen to Depeche Mode's 14th album. Here he gives us his first listen, track by track run down of what we have in store Spirit is the 14th album by Depeche Mode; their second released by the label Columbia and their first…

So I've just heard Spirit. I'm glad that I read Ozan's and ModeMan101's reviews yesterday, because otherwise I would have been quite shocked. Spirit is indeed heavy going, their most consistently gloomy, oppressive and non-commercial offering ever. This album should have been titled Delta Machine in…

"Spirit" is the first Depeche Mode song collection since the launch of "Delta Machine" in 2013. Those of Basildon return with a herculean work and with reminiscences to the industrial past of the group. His new album sucks and breathes recovering the somewhat lazy muscle of his latest studio…

Depeche Mode will be performing at the Letzigrund in Zurich on 18 June. Almost 30,000 tickets for the concert have already been sold, which would have gone much earlier. The trio seems to have its best years behind it. The band still makes good records and gives great concerts, as their performances…

Közös barátunk, a Google Translate szponzorálásával:  "You know that we're sinking, but I'm not going to fall, "Depeche Mode sings on one of Spirit's tracks, his new album, a compendium of songs that are predominantly slow and quiet, even ethereal, that open a spit to optimism and talk about…

Erről az olasz weboldalról fordíttattam Google Translate-tel:  Depeche Mode speak of evolution, loss of control, of revolution. From the title they try to capture the "spirit" of the time, what in philosophy is called "Zeitgeist". "Spirit" is, in many ways, the most political of the disk group. But…

Egy franciáról angolra fordított cikkből (a HOME Fórumról ollóztam) 1 - Going Backwards: the intro to the guitar recalls not in its melody but in the sonority Personal Jesus, with its bluesy side. The atmosphere behind is quite threatening. The electro rhythm is made percussive, with a clear…

A frontember - az elmúlt 3 lemezhez hasonlóan - ezúttal is 3 dal szerzője: ezek a Poison Heart, a The Worst Crime és a Cover Me. Van egy közösen írt dal Martinnal, ez a You Move (ez az első olyan közösen írt daluk, amely felkerül nagylemezre; a korábbi kettő, amit együtt szereztek (Oh Well, Long…