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Depeche Mode's Spirit: EW review

Jim Farber

Posted on March 16, 2017 at 11:00am EDT

Depeche Mode find something key in common with Devo on their new album. Four decades ago, that electro-shocked band declared that humans weren’t evolving, but rather devolving. In that same vein, Depeche Mode start their new album by announcing “We’re Going Backwards” before expressing exasperation and bafflement at “uneducated readers,” “patriotic junkies,” and “misguided leaders,” all of whom “have nothing inside.” “We’re hopeless,” frontman Dave Gahan concludes at the album’s close.

That’s not an uncommon assessment among certain types these days, but in Depeche Mode’s hands, it has led to what’s likely the first protest album against populism in the Trump/Brexit era. While Depeche Mode usually revel in personal psychodrama, spiked by a flourish of S&M, they decided to focus on the worst flaws of the species for Spirit. They’re well suited to the task. The band’s shadowy sound has always communicated a sense of condemnation, and their latest songs extend that pattern, with beats that crack like whips and synths that glower like beasts. It’s a dark pool of sound they’ve made, enlivened by some of Martin Gore’s most compelling melodies in years. Recent Depeche Mode albums have emphasized mood over songcraft, offering high-fi production and richly textured synths in place of entrancing tunes. Somehow, the new political focus has inspired a return to riffs and melodies that stick.

The album switches things up in its center with a string of songs about relationships, though even these favor the bellicose or the sneering. “You Move” repeats the group’s frequent mix of lust, fetish, and emotional remove. “No More” bids a dying love good riddance. It’s the political songs, however, that give the album cohesion and purpose, not to mention an outlook that’s admirably unafraid to express contempt.

Key Tracks:

“Scum”
The lyrics may spew bile, but it’s got a beat you can dance to.

“Poorman”
Finally, an argument against “trickle down economics” you can hum.

“Poorman” Finally, an argument against “trickle down economics”

Что это за термин “trickle down economics” ?

“Бедняк”, наконец, аргумент против “просачивания благ экономики сверху вниз”

Review: Depeche Mode Back In 'Violator' Mode on 14th LP 'Spirit'

By Kory Grow

Our take on the latest from the electro-pop veterans

For nearly four decades, Depeche Mode have majored in gloomy meditations on their own personal shortcomings. But their 14th LP offers a bitter, sorrowful elegy for the outside world. Nearly every song on Spirit laments the death of human decency, often in disarmingly beautiful ways (see the fuzzy ballad "Fail," the forlornly crooned "Poison Heart"). They sometimes drift into heavy-handed polemics ("Where’s the Revolution"). But with a smart mix of techno-leaning keyboards and bluesy guitar, à la their 1990 high-water mark, Violator, it’s easy to get swept away in their gospel.

DEPECHE MODE II Spirit

March 15, 2017 by Mihai Dinu

Ce face ca interesul tău pentru Depeche Mode să fie același, după atâția ani? Ce te atrage, cu toate că nu ai frecventat depeșoteca din Zalomit? Ce resorturi mentale atinge numele lor? Un nou album este un prilej bun pentru un nou turneu?
La prima ascultare aș fi propus schimbarea numelui din DM în DN. 1, așa duminca pe la pranz. Dar lucrurile sunt puțin mai complicate. Mult mai complicate.

Când știi că inspirația a ajuns la fundul sacului, altele sunt lucrurile cu care captezi atenția. Experiența de viață aduce cuvântul în prim plan, pentru că Spirit este un album ale cărui versuri nu-și puteau găsi un context mai bun.
Este o combinație bună între producția lui James Ford (Foals, Arctic Monkeys, Klaxons. Florence & The Machine, Birdy) – care nu oferă nimic lin, totul este zimțat, totul scrâșneste, totul este furios – și cele mai explicite versuri cu încărcătură politică pe care Depeche Mode le-a scris până acum, cu mânie aș spune.

Știu că întotdeauna căutam hitul, acel Personal Jesus, Master And Servant sau I Feel You. Aici nu-l găsim, este ascuns. O variantă este, poate, So Much Love (piesă care trece cel mai bine prin toate perioadele și aduce, prin sound, când cu A Question Of Time, Enjoy The Silence sau I Feel You) sau space rock-ul Cover Me (alură de imn, cu senzația că este produsă de oricare membru Tangerine Dreams, cu un bas ce reproduce ritmul cardiac, într-o repetitivitate care crește în intensitate și dramatism și care nu poate ascunde tenta glacială). Sau You Move (o piesă la granița dintre industrial și electro, probabil perfectă pentru a face trecerea de la Violator la SOFAD și pe care scrie cu litere mari SEX). Fără să uităm piesa de deschidere Going Backwards (un alt cântec travestit în rock cu influențe de blues și din care nu retinem neapărat, cum ar fi normal, primele versuri “We are not bigots, we have not evolved / we have no respect, we have lost control” ci, mai degraba, dublajul lui Martin, “We feel nothing inside” repetat obsesiv).

Așa cum furia și frustrarea se strâng în distorsul de la Scum în cele trei cuvinte “pull the trigger”, așa calmul pastoral degajă din Eternal. Prima și ultima piesă (Fail) nu-s alese întâmplător, ele transmit același mesaj, ignorarea semnelor din jurul nostru, de fapt ăsta este spiritul albumului: schimbările climatice, regresul democrației, distrugerea planetei și putem forța nota cu mai noile și la modă “fake news”. “We’re going backwards, Ignoring the realities, Going backwards, Are you counting all the casualties?” vs “People, do we call this trying? We’re hopeless, forget the denying, Our souls are corrupt, Our minds are messed up, Our consciences, bankrupt, Oh, we’re fucked”.

Spirit face un altfel de activism față de acel al lui Bono (U2), poate mai sincer și mai valoros și este, poate, cel mai bun album Depeche Mode de la Songs Of Faith And Devotion.

Красная Франция. Париж.

Depeche Mode "Spirit" доступен для преобретения в Deluxe версии всего за 179 рублей, а точнее по курсу на сегодня 211 руб. 22 коп.

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Spirit is the fourteenth studio album by English electronic music band Depeche Mode, scheduled to be released on 17 March 2017 by Columbia Records. It will be the band's second album released under Columbia. On 11 October 2016, the band announced on its website that it would embark on the Global Spirit Tour to support their upcoming album Spirit, produced by James Ford. The Summer 2017 European stadium tour will begin in Stockholm on 5 May 2017 and end in Cluj-Napoca, Romania on 23 July.

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«Spirit» — первая коллаборация группы с продюсером Джеймсом Фордом из Simian Mobile Disco (Foals, Florence & The Machine, Arctic Monkeys), которая выступает в качестве продолжения блокбастера группы 2013 года, альбома «Delta Machine», который дебютировал на #1 строчке чартов в 12 странах. Новая студийная работа Depeche Mode уже собрала восторженные отзывы журналистов, которым довелось прослушать превью альбома: так, Q Magazine назвал «Spirit» «самой заряженной пластинкой Depeche Mode за последние годы».
Depeche Mode поддержит выпуск нового лонгплея мировым турне, которое подарит новым и старым фанатам возможность побывать на знаменитых живых выступлениях группы. Первый этап Global Spirit Tour (билеты уже в продаже) будет состоять из 34 концертов, которые группа даст в 21 городе Европы перед аудиторией свыше 1,5 млн человек. Турне начнется 5 мая в Стокгольме (Швеция) и уйдет на перерыв в конце июля после выступления в Румынии; в ходе этой части турне, коллектив посетит и Москву, где на 15 июля этого года запланировано грандиозное выступление на Открытие Арене. Затем гастроли группы продолжатся в Северной и Южной Америке.
Один из самых влиятельных, любимых и успешных коллективов в истории музыки, группа Depeche Mode продала свыше 100 млн записей и выступила перед 30 млн фанатов по всему миру. Основанная в 1981, DepecheMode – Мартин Гор, Дэйв Гаан и Энди Флетчер – продолжают завоевывать любовь публики и критики по всему миру как своими студийными работами, так и потрясающими живыми выступлениями — и бесчисленное количество исполнителей по всему миру отмечают их в качестве источника вдохновения и самых влиятельных инноваторов в истории музыки. 13 студийных альбомов группы попадали в Топ-10 более чем в 20 странах, в том числе в Великобритании и США. Их последний студийный альбом, «DeltaMachine», выпущенный в 2013 году, дебютировал в качестве альбома #1 в 12 странах по всему миру и запустил мировой тур, на котором побывали более 2.5 млн. человек.

Полагаю, различий от сливов нет.

Всех с выходом нового альбома Depeche Mode "Spirit"!