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 It’s tough for a band to exist for nearly 30 years and not at some point become a self-caricature. Without a massively restructured sound, new records usually feel like half-assed aggregations of nostalgia. But even in 2009, Depeche Mode’s members are masters of electronic pop, crafting an inimitable sonic atmosphere that almost never sounds dated. On Sounds Of The Universe, the band still challenges itself, although fans of Depeche Mode’s poppier (and more popular) past output might not take to it; there’s no “Enjoy The Silence” here. It’s also slickly clean and delicately processed, which will dismay diehards relentlessly devoted to the band’s rougher days, but the bleak sheen gives the disc a calm, otherworldly chill. Arty without being obnoxious, Universe is a meticulously intentional and cohesive album: Each song requires the context of the whole. From the eerie opener “In Chains” to the angry, confrontational “Wrong” to the hollow flicker of “Corrupt,” Dave Gahan—riding a confidence high since proving he was a competent songwriter on 2007’s solo effort Hourglass—sets a hypnotically measured pace; the soaring “Peace” is one of the band’s most achingly searching songs in years, and the album’s best. With Universe and 2005’s Playing The Angel, Depeche Mode has created back-to-back albums compelling enough to stand up to its past best....full text |
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| Even those born in a bat cave would have a tough time sustaining the level of broody nocturnal drama that England's dark lords of dance-rock have maintained for nearly 30 years. Somehow, though, on Sounds of the Universe they still sound genuinely inspired, especially on tracks like the fragile ''In Sympathy'' and the hypnotic ''Peace.'' Lead single ''Wrong'' revisits classic black-heart Mode, but there's something gentler here, too — not so much a softening as a graceful evolution. B+...full text |
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Pitch black electronica and a scuffed up baritone, dollops of self loathing served up with queasy romanticism and off-key mysticism, songs called "In Chains", "Wrong", "Jezebel" and - cough - "Hole To Feed". Yes, it can only be a Depeche Mode album, and it's a lot more enjoyable than it sounds. Scraping off some of the guitar scuzz from the preceding "Playing The Angel", "Sounds Of The Universe" reveals some of the buffed up shine that made "Music For The Masses" and "Violator" such masterpieces, though without surrendering all the rawness of more recent years.
Of those rawer songs, lead single "Wrong" and "Come Back" are the most effective. The former may be written by Martin Gore but, as is often the case, he seems to be doing so from somewhere deep inside Gahan's head. "I was marching to the wrong drum with the wrong scum", the former addict singer spits with the righteous fury of a street preacher, backed by sawing analogue synths, and it's impossible not to think of his past, epic drug addictions. The Gahan-written "Come Back" is a stranger beast, with a beseeching melody and lyric, but an underpinning of clanging metallic percussion and smears of grimy guitar....full text |
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