An impressive and very different cover of the Depeche Mode song “Behind The Wheel” was uploaded to YouTube a few days ago. Instead of being played on synthesizers or other halfway ordinary instruments, the track released on their 1987 album MUSIC FOR THE MASSES is now intoned on bottles. Music for the Glasses, so to speak:
Behind the Flaschenmusik cover is a Berlin trio called GlasBlasSing, who have been making music with glasses since 2003 and were originally a quintet. The Depeche Mode version is not their first cover. Before that, they’d taken on The Weekend’s “Blinding Lights”, Silbermond’s “Light Pastries” – and The White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army” among others, in ten different ways:
Here’s a comparison of the Depeche Mode original “Behind The Wheel”:
Depeche Mode will release their new album MEMENTO MORI in 2023 and go on tour with it, also through Germany. It’s their first record as a duo. Andrew Fletcher died in May 2022 at the age of 60.