Self-confidence, strengthened and experiment

Yes, this album sounds so; if it laaft, daunn laafts (when it runs, it runs flat) is in Austria as a winged phrase that applies to this album perfectly. After the first great masterpiece, Reward 'and the immense success of dazugeh. Singles, People Are People 'and' Master & Servant 'was Martin Gore's confidence obviously so strengthened that he could afford on the successor quite lean out a little further. His was now arrived at a very high level songwriting, it seemed almost to go without saying, so he could take care with Alan Wilder even more intensively to sound and atmosphere of the songs -just but that's one of the quiet criticisms you in this album can attach. , Celebration 'stagnant compositionally at very high levels, but this creates no absolute earwigs. With, A Question Of Lust 'and' Stripped 'is because you most likely to turn, and the title track would have the potential to do, but lacks this almost symphonic early song the last ounce of catchiness.

, Fly On The Windshield 'has a great bass line but somehow does not want to harmonize so 100% with the vocal melody. , Sometimes 'is then again as a great gospel-like piano ballad like, Somebody' - a little short, perhaps - which is again supplemented by background samples and vocal echo and yet quite full sounds.
, A Question Of Time 'would be a prototypical danceable DM Hit (which he ultimately was then), but this is missing the crucial hook to an ultimate classic.

The sonic experimentation and the ausgreiften arrangements make this album but still large as the already initially mentioned bombastic title track, which built on vocal samples, It Does not Matter Two ", or the actual sound-wise almost techno anticipatory, New Dress'. That the songs get a little better would be, Gore was probably after released deliberately, because the successor album no longer had this weakness ...