I'll give you 4 stars, because there is no 4-star rating are. Why everyone who writes a bad review must actually say that he is Depeche Mode fan of the first hour? The plate is exactly become what was announced. It is neither particularly good nor particularly bad. I have certainly heard worse in the field of electronica or Ambient. And when Aphex Twin then even a Grammy win ... Well, another issue. Whether Martin Gore has thus done a favor, I do not know. Until the next Depeche Mode album that is always forgotten. But in between, and as compensation, that on the last album which was not instrumental mood it's Ok. And you hear very often, who produces here. One or the other track would fit well on a DM album. And amazingly it's that a more than 50-year-old pop star who has sold millions of plates, so an experimental plate (at least for the mainstream handset) rausbringt. This is relatively unique in the music industry.