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Review: Depeche Mode face down the abyss in 'Memento Mori'

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The 12 tracks are fully Depeche, fully intoxicating in sound, artistically evocative and sometimes puzzling. The music is staring lovingly into the abyss and asking it to love it back. Death is always hovering on the periphery of the sound, a grunge, industrial, rainy sound also filled with a strange kindness.

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Review: Depeche Mode face down the abyss in 'Memento Mori' - Entertainment News

“Memento Mori" by Depeche Mode (Columbia Records) And then there were only two. Depeche Mode have always been a genre unto itself: a vibe, a sort of feedback loop that is timeless yet nostalgic, dark, edgy, a little too dark sometimes but always so cool. Their 15th studio album titled “Memento Mori” (Latin for "remember you will die") feels both like a tribute to founding member and keyboardist Andy Fletcher who died in May 2022 and left them a d

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Review: Depeche Mode face down the abyss in 'Memento Mori'

“Memento Mori” by Depeche Mode (Columbia Records) And then there were only two. Depeche Mode have always been a genre unto itself: a vibe, a sort of feedback loop that […]

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Review: Depeche Mode face down the abyss in 'Memento Mori'

“Memento Mori” by Depeche Mode (Columbia Records) And then there were only two. Depeche Mode have always been a genre unto itself: a vibe, a sort of feedback loop that […]

3 years ago·Winnipeg, Canada

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