Depeche Mode - 13th album - Delta Machine

[Jana]

It's dropping March 26th. The first single has caused an uproar in the fanbase, love it or hate it. No hook, very slow. Very odd first single. I tend to think it might work within the context of the whole album. It is a grower. I also bought the Owlle Remix, more uptempo and gives a different feel to the lyrics. Great remix. I long for the older DM sound, but it is what it is.

They released the B side to the single (I love that they do that), which Dave actually wrote, and is good, more electronic Fans are very nervous over this album as the last one was disappointing. I still appreciate their desire to create and play new music in their concerts. I have to go with their creative vision and just appreciate they are still together (Well, I, like all DM fans, will always wish Alan Wilder would come back as he was integral to their music and sound).

Here's a review of the album and the youtubes of the single and B side. Anyone on here besides me looking forward to their new album?

They will be on Letterman March 11. They will be performing a webcast mini concert for the Letterman concert series, streaming on VEVO and CBS.com at 8 p.m. eastern standard time/5 p.m. PT, on and then perform on Letterman that same night one song. They never promote in America, so excited for it.


Heaven - official music video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTR7Tx9Gmcc

B side, All That's Mine - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdoJq6SHaR8

Owlle Remix Heaven - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96FrN1zzMIo

[Memorex]

There's a fan base?

Just kidding. Love their writing, can't get into the music or singing.

[Don]

There's a fan base?

Just kidding. Love their writing, can't get into the music or singing.

They were playing stadiums a few years ago. I had no idea they could still pull in crowds like that.

[slucero]

Depressed Mood

[Jana]

There's a fan base?

Just kidding. Love their writing, can't get into the music or singing.

They were playing stadiums a few years ago. I had no idea they could still pull in crowds like that.

They have a loyal fanbase, even though many complain about the directon and sound of their last few albums, same as any longtime fanbase, but still love their concerts. They still play a lot of stadiums in Europe depending which country they are in. In North America, it's arenas and ampitheatres and I think they sell out mostly or fill the venues pretty good with just an opening act I usually don't recognize. They have a wide range of fans as far as age. You see a lot of 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s, a real mixture. Not bad for being around like 35 years or so.

They never promote their new albums really, especially here, so that's why I am excited about the webcast mini concert Monday for the Letterman concert series. They will play some of my favorite older material I'm sure with a couple of new songs.

[Jana]

EW just announced in their review the album is now streaming on iTunes this week before its release next Monday. If you like the band, you can check it out for free. Although, I disagree with the reviewer. They have some great songs on here, but I will take out like five that are plodding and no hook in the middle, and get rid of Martin Gore's awful lead vocal song, and pick back up at tracks nine through the track 14, which I love. I guess there wll never be a Violator sound again, very expansive and hook driven, like Enjoy the Silence with Alan gone, but there is a great 10-track album within this album once I pare it down.


http://music-mix.ew.com/2013/03/18/depe ... um-review/

[Ehwmatt]

Singer sounds like total ass live. Too many drugs

[Liam]

I think I only ever like 2 songs from them. Strangelove, and It's No Good.

[Ehwmatt]

I think I only ever like 2 songs from them. Strangelove, and It's No Good.

It's no good is killer

[Liam]

Very good breakup song, I can tell ya that much.

[Jana]

Singer sounds like total ass live. Too many drugs

He's been clean for over 15 years, but with all the damage he did to himself with heroin addiction, heart attack, drug overdoses, it has shocked me how good he has looked over these years and sounded for many years. This is the first year he looks older, but he is in his fifties. As far as his voice, there is degradation, but he still has a powerful voice (for the most part) and on key. Though his last concert his vocals were thinner.. It's usually just that he's rougher sounding vocally in concert or strained at times. I was surprised how good he sounded on this album. He has been touring for over 30 years, so there's no way his voice wouldn't show it. I'm sure once he gets a few shows under his belt he will sound good, but as the tour progresses, it will definitely deteriorate over the shows like previous tours. I still think he's a great frontman. The other guys are so stationary,with the exception of Martin in parts, that if Dave wasn't the frontman he is, it would be a bore to watch live.

[yulog]

Just finished listening to the cd, sounds like ass....just sounds like them going thru the motions, saw them on dave letterman play heaven, I couldn't even watch it all the way thru. The stones move more than these guys.

This is a prime example of why you should be able to listen to an entire cd before buying it.................so you can delete it

[Jana]

Just finished listening to the cd, sounds like ass....just sounds like them going thru the motions, saw them on dave letterman play heaven, I couldn't even watch it all the way thru. The stones move more than these guys.

This is a prime example of why you should be able to listen to an entire cd before buying it.................so you can delete it

I thought there were some great songs on there and then some clunkers I will delete. Regarding the Letterman performance, I so agree. It's a plodding song anyway (horrible first single) and Dave Gahan looked tired. I was shocked. I know it was a morning taping, but still. But I finally saw the mini concert they did at the Ed Sullivan Theatre that streamed that night live and the band sounded tight for their first performance together in several years. And the new songs after watching the Letterman concert twice, I liked. Dave did a much better on Heaven. The new song, Angel. really works live, and the new Should Be Higher is so reminiscent of old Depeche Mode. I loved it.

I just didn't get at first putting Barrel of a Gun, , a great but very dark industrial classic about Dave Gahan surviving his demons near death, right before the slow, hookless Heaven for a short concert. But the last four songs were great and energetic. I ended up liking the new ones, the bluesy Soft Touch/Raw Nerve, Soothe My Soul, endng with Enjoy the Silence, which I never tire of live with the audience singing. Dave's voice sounded powerful, but forced in places, which I take for nerves, and it was sweet to see his wife in the front row cheering him on, dancing the whole concert, and him holding her hand up in the last song. She and his children have been instrumental in these last 15 years for his happiness and sobriety. Few come back from the depths of heroin addiction he had.

The mini concert below from last week, nine songs. I swear I saw Martin with five different guitars for only eight songs, as he was on synths on one song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wlQn6E3DeI