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[DJ Phoenix]

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Bong 40 - “Wrong” (release date tbc)
// 11.12.08 16:32 // Posted by Peter2 //

The title of the Depeche Mode’s first “Single Of The Universe” leaked onto the internets today. While it’s been speculated since it’s inclusion at the October 6th press conference, it’s now not-yet-at-all-official that “Wrong” will be the lead single from the band’s yet-to-be-publicly-named album. While a release date has yet to be confirmed, it’s likely to be late March/early April, with a radio date some time in February.

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L.A. Times: Depeche Mode finishes new album, reveals new songs
// 12.12.08 9:43 // Posted by Amigo //

“We’ve completed the record,” the band’s frontman, Dave Gahan, told Pop & Hiss on Thursday via phone from New York. “There might be a couple of bits and pieces we’ve got to clean up, but I feel really good about the fact that we’re finished,” he continued. “I think we’ve made a great record.”

Gahan said the as-yet-untitled album, slated for release this coming spring, will have about 12 tracks.

“We’ve been spoiled for choice with this one because we recorded more songs for this record than we ever had for any [other] record,” he said. “Maybe I’m old school or whatever but once you start going over 12 songs, I think it becomes a little weird.”

Gahan confirmed the 2009 disc, which will be the first for EMI in the U.S. (the band has been releasing albums for Warner Music Group in North America for much of its career), will contain the tracks “Wrong” and “Peace,” snippets of which have been circulating the Web. Gahan, however, clarified that the actual title of “Peace” is “Peace Will Come to Me.”

Additionally, he unveiled the titles of three more new tracks — “Hole to Feed,” “Comeback” and “In Chains,” all co-written by Gahan — that are likely set for inclusion on the album. Gahan added that the recording sessions, which took place over the last several months in New York and Santa Barbara, were productive and that he and the act’s principal songwriter, Martin Gore, are working well together.

“We have about 18 songs,” he said, even hinting that the band will release a special EP or online-only add-on with the extra material next year.

But Gahan stressed that the EMI release will be just that — a proper record that doesn’t run too long.

Said Gahan: “I’ve been listening to the current play list, and I’m always still thinking of an album like Side 1, and Side 2. It’s like when you see a movie or something, and it goes over two hours and you’re like ‘OK, I get it.’ ”

So what will the new material sound like? Rolling Stone last month ran an “In the Studio” featuring the band, on which Gore was quoted saying the set has a “spiritual” feel.

“I know what [Martin] means by that, but if anyone’s thinking that the record will have a Gospel feel, it couldn’t be further from that,” Gahan said. “I feel like [the record] is [about] looking outside and a yearning for somehow coming together. The world is changing. Watching Obama getting elected was great. We watched it on TV in Santa Barbara and I get goosebumps thinking about that still. It’s going to take a long time, but I think some of that same feeling, that sentiment [of hope] is in the work.”

And though the band is increasingly fond of using guitars, the new disc may see a return to the Depeche Mode’s original analog synth roots — at least on a few tracks.

“Martin’s got this new fetish which is basically buying gear on EBay,” Gahan said. “He must have bought up half of the analog equipment around the world. We’ve got all these old drum machines from the 1970s, and even some of the stuff that we used in the ’80s as well, like old Moogs and Arps.”

As an example, Gahan noted that one of the new album’s stars is a piece of gear dubbed “The Colonel” - a vintage 1970s-era Steiner Parker synthesizer. It’s an instrument, said Gahan, “that makes crazy noises. We found it really inspiring and used it in a lot of things [on the new record].”

Depeche Mode announced portions of its 2009 “Tour of the Universe” earlier this year and is set to reveal U.S. dates in the coming weeks. Depeche Mode has maintained a strong fan base in the L.A.-area, thanks to such famed concerts as the 1988 Rose Bowl sellout captured in the film “Depeche Mode 101.” The band last played Southern California in 2006 at the Coachella music & arts festival.

“We had a great time on stage that night,” Gahan gushed. “It was one of those gigs where you just feel like you’re floating on air. I was singing great, the atmosphere was great, everything was right. It was very special.”

While Depeche Mode’s famously devoted fans await new music and tour dates, they have been busy bemoaning the fact that the band’s music has turned up in a Hilary Duff song. Her “Reach Out” heavily samples the band’s “Personal Jesus.”

“I don’t know what I think about it…. It’s a little weird,” laughed Gahan. “I think it was something that Martin didn’t really have any choice over, they kind of did it anyway. But, you know, it is what it is. Look, my daughter loves it. You know what she said to me? ‘But it’s not the same, Dad.’ ”

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com


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[tenohtwo]

Nice, thanks for the news. I like that we may hear some more analog synth sounds on this album. Something about the newer, 'cleaner' synth sounds, whether it be from a Nord Lead or a softsynth, sound too clinical, too buzzy and blippy. Give me some warm pads, fat analog bass sounds, punchy gated drums.. Ah screw it, I'll just go throw on Masses.

Here's hoping they don't compress the shit out of this record, PTA was a speaker-clipping nightmare of sound. Still, we got a couple of new classics in Precious and Suffer Well (and Martyr reminds me of a Violator B-side, or Catching Up single).

Can't wait.

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[Judas101]

Analog Synth Rules!!! Can't wait to hear the new Album..

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[rotator]

Glad to hear they are going back to those great great instruments....nothing is better than 'A Broken Frame' era D.M. hopefully they dont get too Aphex/postal servicey with the beats.....the 'gospel' thing scares me a little bit as evidenced by the awful alterna rock/gospel back peddling on'Songs Of Faith & Devotion'....

[Judas101]

[quote][i]Originally posted by rotator[/i]
<br>Glad to hear they are going back to those great great instruments....nothing is better than 'A Broken Frame' era D.M. hopefully they dont get too Aphex/postal servicey with the beats.....the 'gospel' thing scares me a little bit as evidenced by the awful alterna rock/gospel back peddling on'Songs Of Faith & Devotion'....
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Gospel are a bit scarry lol.. But put it on an innovative way.. There are no Electronic/Post New Wave Band that does Gospel & Blues with Synths at the same time, it makes DM very unique..

SOFAD is outta be the best Dark Gospel Blues Electronic Rock album of all time period

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[rotator]

yeah seems like there are two camps with SOFAD. love it or Hate it. of course I actually liked Exciter which was shunned by alot of DM fans.....still, give me 'Oberkorn' or 'The Great Outdoors' sounding DM and Im a pig in mud.

[Judas101]

[quote][i]Originally posted by rotator[/i]
<br>yeah seems like there are two camps with SOFAD. love it or Hate it. of course I actually liked Exciter which was shunned by alot of DM fans.....still, give me 'Oberkorn' or 'The Great Outdoors' sounding DM and Im a pig in mud.
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Exciter was supposed to be Violator II according to Fetch?? I would have believed if Alan had said it.. That album (exciter)like SOFAD had many DM hardcores scratch there head(?).. What is "Dream on"? acoustic blues guitar with Synths? It's no Personal Jesus IMO lol..








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[tenohtwo]

I like Dream On and Shine, and then Exciter just goes into a nosedive for me. That tour was my least favorite, the Exciter tracks came off kinda boring live, in my opinion. I remember the Arizona Republic calling Exciter "the sonic cousin to Black Celebration" before I'd heard it, which couldn't be further from the truth, of course. It's still my least favorite DM record.

I liked SOFAD when it came out, and still like it to this day. I always felt they should've put "My Joy" on the album, in place of "The Mercy In You" (the guitars always annoyed me, and the melody reminds me of a second-rate Policy Of Truth (mainly the chorus).

A new DM album is always an event for me. Can't wait.

Top 3: Black Celebration, Violator, Masses
Bottom 3: PTA, Speak and Spell, Exciter

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