In berlinin the presence of fans and journalists, the iconic British group pioneering synthesizers announced their new album memento mori. The musician Martin Gore and the vocalist Dave Gahan offered a press conference presenting the album and the new international tour that will begin on March 23, in California, and will end August 11, 2023 in Oslo.
This was the first meeting of Depeche Mode with the press and its public after the death of its third member, Andy Flecher, It happened on May 26 of this year. “We started working on these songs a long time ago”, indicated the singer and added: “In fact we managed to name the album before Andy’s death”.
Last August, through social networks, the image of Gahan and Gore in a recording studio had been posted. “Find stability in what we know and love, and focus on what gives life meaning”, was the phrase that accompanied the photograph. That message answered the uncertainty of the fans, who had doubts about the continuity of the band after Fletcher’s death.
Born in 1980, Depeche Mode initially toured the British stage as a band from the new wave movement. Made up of the composer and musician Martin Gore, the keyboardist Andy Fletchthe vocalist Dave Gahan and led by vince clarke, who quit the project after their first album, imposed a popular musical style based on sounds of synthesizers and samplers. From that stage, the theme “Just can’t get enough” is the most remembered.
His international positioning would come with the multi-instrumentalist Alan Wilder, standing out in the sophistication of the production of the later albums. musical works Black Celebration (1986), Music for the Masses (1987), rapist (1990) and Song of Faith and Devotion (1993), were the highest grossing albums of the band, which exceeded 40 years of validity.
Wilder’s estrangement, prior to the album’s release Ultra (1997), meant a complete transformation in the band, both from production and live shows. The unofficial members, the English keyboardist Peter Gordon and the Austrian drummer Christian Eignercollaborated in the staging and instrumentation for later albums.
excite (2001), Playing the Angel (2005), Sound of the Universe (2009), Delta Machine (2013) and Spirit (2017), were the works that marked a stage of experimentation closer to electrorock than to the most emblematic synth pop melodies. The return of Depeche Mode, in duo format, is one of the novelties this year in the musical revival of the ’80s that will favor the new songs of Memento Mori. Although his tour next year did not miss classics such as “Enjoy the Silence”, “Never let my down” Y “Staff Jesus” to the delight of his fans.
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