In the moment when mans writing down, it seems almost a little pretentious and yet it corresponds to the facts: Martin L. Gore has just been released with over fifty his solo debut. He admitted all the 35 years largely steered the success of Depeche Mode and shaped, two EPs with covered songs (Counterfeit / Counterfeit²) are also part of his output as an album together with the ex-colleague Vince Clarke (VCMG) and various collaborations and cameos. But his own songs just on Long Player? Premiere. Do not want to believe you, on the other hand is also nothing dishonorable about it, to look after such a long period of preparatory work and the compromise for a change for one's own ego. Consequently, the Gore does. In instrumental form Everyone knows that his voice is distinctive enough to a stadium audience to send shivers down your spine, yet: Once again, Gore goes as with the collaboration with Clarke to the essentials, to musical textures, structures, to the fascination of the interplay of such simple components such as Beat, noise and melody.
Sixteen minimalist compositions so, some of them already during work on the last Depeche Mode album Delta Machine emerged (and too valuable for Gore, to make them disappear), provided with cryptic, futuristic titles like Elk, Spiral, Brink or Featherlight , They could be called finger exercises probably insufficient, but they have enough depth, diversity, and especially the ability to stimulate your imagination, so that they could take it easy with classic songs. Gore himself stresses like the cinematic aspect of his work, and in fact they are developing, you can treat them the necessary time to a kind of soundtrack for private Kopfkino. And so aware of how he waives any vocal part, his approach remains a for all those who condemn the use of Blue Guitar in Depeche Mode as an aberration not strictly synthetic tired, a purely technoid album should trigger as this boundless jubilation. But in the end it remains a collector's item for a few, where the path is spared the format radio. And that is good news again. mapambulo: blog
