Depeche Mode are the epigones of Kraftwerk? Hardly likely. It is inspired and developed his own style - if you good enough now.
This applies to DM just to how to camouflage. The latter were, incidentally, long before Depeche Mode, on the Methods of Silence Tour, with guitar and drums on stage and showed how synth Mucke can rock.
To check off the topic: Delta Machine got from me 5 stars. Because it's a great album.
This album is also great.
The details have another run, I think it's as strong as sensor. Above all, the individual sounds and the overall sound produced are bulky, you realize the attention to detail, it is both modern, true to their own style, and not a piece of repetitive.
But I reserve the right to withdraw in three years a star if they can be again such a long time with the next album - it did not work namely :-)