This week’s new release schedule is highlighted by the first new music in 30 years from Depeche Mode founders Martin Gore & Vince Clarke.
Posts tagged "Depeche Mode"
Spin Cycle: The Dreaming’s “Puppet”
This one was an absolute surprise. I’ve been a fan of Christopher Hall since his Stabbing Westward days and was excited at the prospect of what his new band, The Dreaming , would bring. Etched In Blood, The Dreaming’s 2008 debut, was stripped of the electronics that made Stabbing Westward stand out and decidedly more in your face rock but Hall’s distinct voice and heartbroken lyrics still made his new band rise above the rest. Cut to 2011 and a firm line-up […]
Spin Cycle: U2 Tribute “ACH-toong BAY-bi Covered”
U2’s “Achtung Baby” turns 20, and some legendary artists have paid tribute to the band and their songs on a new album.
Spin Cycle: Erasure’s “Tomorrow’s World”
To dismiss Erasure as mere “synthpop pioneers” seems like it’d be erroneous; it’s true, the duo of Vince Clark and Andy Bell built a career from the ground up, dolling up their sound with more canned drumbeats and squelching keyboards than you could shake a Yaz at. But any pop connoisseur knows the real deal: peel away the layers, and what remained under that distinctly-80’s veneer were, simply, a series of excellent pop songs. Melodically, next to nothing can compete with […]
The Viewfinder: Nada Surf’s “Enjoy the Silence”
If, back in 1996, you’d given me a list of bands and asked me which of them would still be around in 2011, I certainly wouldn’t have picked Nada Surf. Thought by many to be doomed to one-hit wonderdom after the success of “Popular”, the trio’s clawed their way back to respectability. A buddy turned me on to their album Lucky in 2007, which was a very solid piece of work. I admittedly ignored their latest project, If I Had […]
Hump Day Flashback: Cause and Effect
Before I got to high school, I thought Depeche Mode was a one-hit wonder act. “People Are People” was a Top 40 hit in 1985, and then they disappeared, or so I thought for a few years. Without exposure to modern rock radio (or knowledge of what modern rock radio even WAS at that point), how the hell was I supposed to know that DM was still kickin’? My entrance into high school in 1989 broadened my world in many […]