Depeche Mode by Anton Corbijn
Depeche Mode will continue their touring in Leipzig, Germany on May 26th.
Depeche Mode have premiered their official video for Wagging Tongue.
It’s the second to be taken from this year’s Memento Mori album – a ‘powerful requiem choreographed by a band who’ve defined music’s business as unusual for over four decades’, according to Live4ever’s review:
“Even with the fractious atmosphere which surrounded the making of 2017’s vaguely underwhelming Spirit, producer James Ford also returned to the fold, discovering that what would previously have led to passive-aggressive eruptions were now handled being with consideration.”
“As a result two Gahan compositions are included in the running order and credit is shared on a third, whilst Gore’s invitation to the Psychedelic Furs’ veteran Richard Butler to lay down some initial vocal work was accepted with good grace.”
This is, all parties insist, not a maudlin record although there are a host of noirish references. Perhaps its whole ethos – and the creator’s joint mindsets – are best summed up on the lead-off single Ghosts Again, in tone a return to the elfin pop of the Depeche Mode’s early post-Vince Clarke days.
