We are the bigots, we have not evolved/we have no respect, we have lost control. That’s the opening line to Going Backwards, the brooding first track off Depeche Mode’s 14th studio album Spirit. Even for a band known for moodiness, it’s an especially dour note. It’s clear the electronic titans are…

I reviewed Spirit last week for XS Noize and did so having listened to the album twice in quick succession, basing my review on early impressions of the record. Obviously, being the person I am, it takes a lot for my first impression of any new Depeche material to be anything other than rapturous,…

So after first listen I am quite impressed with 'Spirit' although I can fully understand the views previously expressed by Samuli, Michael and some others that have heard it as there are no stand out tracks and nothing jumps out as a second single Going BackwardsA strong first track with a sound…

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…

Christ ubiquitous Personal Jesus. The king lost walking aimlessly Enjoy the Silence. The traitor sang Judas . John the Apostle invoked in John the Revelator. All the biblical and historical characters evoked in his forty year career seem to have arrived here to rally around the suffering body of the…