🔺i come to your house, break down the door, girl i’m shaking, i need more… 🔺 it’s another beautiful day of depechecember! the black celebration gets a little soulful today with @Depeche Mode’s thirteenth lp, 2013’s delta machine…which also marks the first depeche mode lp released within my lifetime martin gore always loved soul, gospel, and the blues, and learned how to play guitar as a young boy from blues tabs published in guitar magazines. he incorporated blues as far back as music for the masses in 1987, but perhaps the most blues influenced album is violator, which saw many blues inspired hooks it’s clear that the band wanted to bring that blues sound back for this album, but took it to another level. on delta machine (“delta” for the blues hooks and “machine” for the heavy synths), it wonderfully combines the organic earthiness of blues with harsh industrial electronics. songs like soothe my soul, goodbye, and slow really bring out the blues, with martin gore’s amazing guitars and dave’s silky smooth baritone singing despite the bluesy elements, this is still depeche mode we’re talking about, not the black keys, so you’ll still hear all those glitchy chunky layered synths that the band is known and loved for. this is still a depeche mode record and a pretty good one at that this record has some great tracks, but some of the album does sound a little harsh and unwelcoming. it tries to do two things at once: replicate the bluesy feel of violator while sounding like a new record, and in doing so it loses a little focus on what it should be. this is a solid enjoyable record and what it does well, in my opinion, is showcase martin gore’s incredible guitar work
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