For at least 15 years now I've been buying the new Depeche Mode album in hope of some great reward. Sorry for the pun, but even the most devout fan of DM has to admit that there has not been an album as wholly powerful as their 1993 angst-filled studio release Songs of Faith and Devotion.
Their latest release, Delta Machine, is five full studio efforts later (not to mention the solo attempts of Gore and Gahan). My initial reaction to the release matched my disappointment with those past five, but that sells the album short. This is an album to be explored deeper with repeated plays, and possibly, dare I say it, their best since 1993.
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