Delta Machine has long been once again a bright spot!

Delta Machine has long been once again a ray of hope when it comes to the personal commitment of Martin Gore. His beautiful melodies are here to hear again more in minimal electro style. The first song "Welcome to My World" could be a real hit with better mixing and sounds! There are many songs that sound almost finished, but there definitely are not and cumbersome in the long production time and work of the band. David Gahan unfortunately affects some songs endeavor to interpret them as if he was not properly immersed in the new songs. The producer Ben Hiller increase again, in my opinion, is a recurrent mistake. Ben Hiller unfortunately does not understand a lot of the good Depeche Mode music and even not even by x-albums that he produced with them. Nevertheless, for a long time, there is once again true analog sounds from the 80s, but they are difficult to detect as real orignal in digital production mix. The chickadees Analog Drums act for me to raw and unprocessed for a band like Depeche Mode.

Final mix there're extremely many dropouts. I mastere and produce even more than 20 years music and the album could better mastered guaranteed 100%, mix and produce color.

1. Many tracks are of high frequency content from 10 kHz upwards so weak that the treble control to pull, anyone who wants to hear a balanced production. A clear errors in mixing and mastering, it has been worked with to clear height-rich boxes setting in the studio!
2.The backing vocals are mixed in almost every song so pure in the mix that they self-willed as an art form considered disturbing just after repeated listening. Keyword: Almost the whole album is like a dry Rough Demomix. Where are the missing please delays and long reverberation rooms that would be urgently needed ???
3.In many versions there are extreme digital About limitation by faulty mastering overdriving, maximum loudness is not everything. The labels and makers should always lead before heard that radio stations with the same plug-ins again go over on the kaputtgemasterten versions and the Sound mud is then even more ruined. Even lay people hear that out already the song "Heaven"!
4.The Supplemental Disc 2 has better songs, which inexplicably does not have me on the main album on it. My question: Why not ???
5.The good 12.Song "Soothe My Soul" has a faulty mixing in every chorus parts: The entire vocals are mixed too low at these points!

Overall, a marbled listening experience that drives my wife even as diehard DM fan questions in the face. Nevertheless, there is this time a total of more highlights on the album than expected, so that a real fan should buy the CD absolutely. I think they are the basic approach for years the best thing that Martin Gore has produced. You have all the songs often simply listen and then feels only the potential this album out, it could be a classic, despite the technical flaws.