Subtle Beauty

The first song on "Ultra", entitled "Barrel of a gun" made the inclined DM fan believe in 1997 that it would proceed on the new album again so rocky and aggressive as on the previous album "Songs of Faith and Devotion" ,
But that was not the case.
"Ultra" hinted what was completely developed four years later by "Exciter": the quantum leap to contemplation. Away from mass-market, inflated Stadionpop, toward soft sounds for the living room that can run as a background music, it is the moment during aunt has just made cozy with a cup of coffee. And so I will not say that "Ultra" boring sounds! Quite the contrary: the more often you listen songs like "The Love Thieves", "Free State" or "The Bottom Line", the better they like one. What not for "It's no good" applies, because this number is a catchy tune, which already provides right away for goosebumps. And in "Home" takes the listener then mandatory, bombastic Martin Gore ballad without manages almost no DM album.
But now to the two towering songs on "Ultra".
As the former would be there to call "Sister of Night". A melancholy ballad, with one of the most brilliant fade-outs of DM history. A mystical, spherical melody can be heard since that sounds as if you see at night in the forest an inexplicable light appearance. May sound strange, but this association is exactly at this point to me always. The second masterpiece entitled "Insight" and is also the culmination of the plate. Also a somber ballad so full of strength and hope at the same time that you feel dannach renewed as internally.
Conclusion: "Ultra" is a masterpiece of understated beauty that touches the most remote places in phases of the soul.