Depeche Mode have teased and tortured us with ‘Wrong’, the magnificent first release from their twelfth studio album Sounds of the Universe. It’s an uncompromising track boasting a blackly humorous ...

Depeche Mode’s twelfth album opens with a tone of such a high frequency that maybe some of their older fans may at first struggle to make it out. One can imagine men of a certain age, with a penchant ...

Sounds of the Universe is Depeche Mode’s first album since 2005’s Playing the Angel. The video for first single “Wrong” has already found its way onto Dailymotion.

Unbelievably, Depeche Mode has done just that, and with their 12th studio album, Sounds of the Universe, they've made their most sonically inspired and creative effort since 1986's Black Celebration.

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.

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WITH the recent slew of Eighties music comebacks, it is ironic to think that Depeche Mode – who have never been away –- are now probably as big as ever. Their 12th studio album was only kept ...

Depeche Mode have announced details of their 12th studio effort: Sounds Of The Universe. The album marks the first release under the new exclusive deal with EMI. Sounds Of The Universe will be ...

Ample reasons for this can be found on the group’s latest CD, “Sounds of The Universe.” It’s an amazingly vital work for a nearly 30-year-old band, full of fresh textures and new hues.

No one could argue that Depeche Mode don't have presence. From the opening tone that's built upon until it forms a cacophonous mass of sound, DM make sure you know they are there.

What is remarkable is how sci-fi Depeche Mode still sound nearly 30 years on. The sonic vista of rock remained static throughout the Nineties, even regressing slightly with Britpop.

Playing the Angel, from 2005, constituted a muscular return to form for Depeche Mode, but set a standard that Sounds of the Universe struggles to live up to. For much of its course, it features ...