It is like it is. It is DEPECHE MODE

Let's face it, what you expect from a band that invented thirty years just about every sound that an object or an electronic instrument can produce at all. Actually, not much. The artistic history of Depeche Mode seems to have been written already completed several years ago. A few prices for lifetime achievement and from it. Thanks was nice. So I had already made friends with the idea that DM after more than mediocre last album Sounds of the Universe and all the accompaniments simply throw in the towel.

But what a surprise, they want to know again and Martin Gore squats down, are at home the Blues and made with Vince Clarke in passing a abgespacestes Techno album and Dave Gahan embarks on a creative journey with the Soul Savers. How are these characters again develop a coherent work and in what direction it should go.

The first harbinger Angel of the press and a select audience of millions already to be presented via the Internet at the press conference in Paris in October 2012 read, imagine that Depeche Mode control on something new, great.

Now turns to me the Delta Machine 13 Album of Depeche Mode on the platter and I seesaw with delight not only with his foot. Martin Gore has been even farther away when composing the Poplandschaft when he already was anyway and Dave Gahan is suffering even more than on the last three albums. So much experimentation, I no longer have thought Depeche Mode. It beeps, creaks and rustles at all corners and edges and Depeche Mode hold the promise that the album very much based on blues and soul, without sounding stale. And surprise them by idiosyncratic compositions that can also search in vain for their own history compare. The times of simple pop melodies are now definitely over, right? Not quite, but they are pushed well back. But they are rather dirty again, what had lost them in the last days. Not only Angel is a good proof. Slow or Goodbye to show new sides of Depeche Mode. Gore writes Gahan back songs on the body and the lives of you. The step back to the front they dare it then even more with the first single Heaven. From the mood here, I had to first think of Condemnation and have let me out of the single as well as dozens of other fans fooled. Heaven is the exceptional track on Delta Machine. Depeche Mode have always chosen preliminary singles that are available for a new album, they have it this time completely flipped.

But can Depeche Mode for even prepare a special kick? Can you. He who hears only once purely in songs like the wonderful Broken or in standalone, will know what I mean. And who then also Should be higher will jump for joy around the room, like Rumpelstiltskin around the fire. This shows once again that Dave Gahan has learned a lot in recent years when it comes to writing songs. Exactly those pieces I've missed in recent years. But this can also hear that Dave Gahan has become a mature singer. What began with the Soul Savers in his work, he has continued wonderful. The broken monotonous voice that we had to endure nor Exciter (2001) or Playing the Angel (2005) is definitely given way to a voice of a mature man who knows that his voice is another instrument in the Gesamtkunstwerk.

But there is no more hit singles? Finally, Depeche Mode have skillfully avoided the last album, not to publish potential singles. But! With Soothe my soul they have created a classic. Driving beats and bassline plus a Gahan, who lives out Gores text and even a sex god of female fans will. He threatens but the fact that he is bursting to visit the beloved with lust and only then warp back when he has satisfied his lust. What woman in the DM fan base does not dream of it secretly? And when Dave Gahan then also looks delicious, as least for twenty years no longer.

Delta Machine apologized for everything that Depeche Mode have done to their fans in recent years to mediocrity. The wait was worth it. They invent neither himself nor the wheel, pull the wheel at least finally have a new ceiling with greifendem profile. Sex, greed and Weltschmerz will always stand with safety in Depeche Mode in the foreground, but we are growing with them and will follow them further (must).