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…

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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…

Többek között az is, hogy James Ford ellentmondást nem tűrve, egymaga választotta ki a lemezre kerülő dalokat, csak a sorrendet kellett eldönteniük; 6-7 dal lesz a Spiritről a Global Spirit Touron, valamint hogy Dave megnyugtatónak tartja az állandó arcok (az európai turnét végigkövető rajongók)…

Electro-pop veterans call for revolution on Spirit, a thirteenth album with a breathtaking modernity.And if "Spirit", the new Depeche Mode, already established itself as one of the most relevant albums of 2017? Even if they do not have anything to prove, Martin Gore, Dave Gahan and Andy Fletcher…

"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, ‘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…