My two cents:What a missed chance! Somewhere deep inside there's a great song hidden in this disjointed, repetitive cut-up mess. Is Martin so afraid of "going too Pop" that he deliberately ruins his best attempts? The song is going nowhere, when it should lift off to become epic it just breaks down…
It’s always easy to blur Depeche Mode into the bigger picture of 80s new wave, but the ways this band stood out and went above and beyond their peers are numerous. The hardest part about this band, and arguably the best part, is that their music requires some effort on the listener’s part; it’s not…