They’d do it infinitely better later in their career, but it’s good to hear the band really stretching themselves here. Pipeline, as an example, is nearly six minutes long and is a deeply awkward, industrial noise dirge that would have sent the band’s early fans running a mile. It’s probably worth at least investigating Construction Time Again for a variety of reasons, the most pressing one being that it’s really the first time in their career that Depeche Mode sound, well, weird. If there aren’t any obvious problems here, the lukewarm critical reaction to the record was largely based on a gnawing sense that this was the sound of a band treading water. Singles Sooth My Soul, a great cyber-disco romp, and vocalist Dave Gahan’s suaveness on the swaying, Bond theme-esque Heaven are great, but there really isn’t much here that the band hadn’t already done to a higher standard. There’s nothing strictly wrong with Delta Machine, and it does have a few fine moments over its over-long 58-minute run time.
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So, it’s hardly surprising that Depeche Mode needed an album to acclimatise to the situation after Vince Clarke departed to do his own thing, and was replaced by Alan Wilder, shortly after debut album Speak and Spell.Ī Broken Frame is the sound of a band who desperately want to move on from their first album, but with this being Martin Gore’s opening crack at songwriting duties, aren’t quite sure exactly how to do that yet. When you’ve just had a massive worldwide smash on your first album, but the bloke who writes all your music decides to leave the band, you’re in something of a pickle.
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