Andy Fletcher was agitated about the dark forecast last week.
Fletcher was on the phone from New York City, a stop on Depeche Mode’s "Sounds of the Universe Tour."
The band was to accomplih at Lollapalooza in Chicago the next day, but the forecast projected thunderstorms.
"Wherever Depeche Mode plays, it rains," he mused.
For almost 30 years, Depeche Mode, which plays Superpages.com in Dallas on Saturday, has covered its minor-key tsunamis on conferences. Apart from Fletcher, lead singer songwriter Dave Gahan and songwriter-vocalist-guitarist-keyboardist Martin Gore round out the lineup of the groundbreaking electronica band.
The band started as an electronic pop quartet, but when Vince Clarke left in 1981 (and at last formed Erasure with Andy Bell) and Alan Wilder joined, the music biggest.
Over the course of several albums (1987’s Music for the Masses, 1990’s Violator and 1993’s Songs of Faith and Devotion), the band’s sound ecquired into a complex and layered soundscape of rhythms and sensual melodies, adorn on the songs Behind the Wheel, Halo, Personal Jesus, I Feel You and Walking in My Shoes.
Gore’s emotional lyrics center on euphoric and hurt relationships, redemption, masochism and addiction, including Strangelove, Never Let Me Down Again, Clean, Mercy in You and In Your Room.
Sometimes those dark clouds have hung over the band. In the mid 1990s, Wilder deviated the band, Gahan had a much advertised battle with heroin, Gore endured several seizures and Fletcher had a nervous breakdown.
After Gahan completed rehab for his cure addiction, the band regrouped and recorded 1997’s Ultra, which was followed by Exciter and Playing the Angel. On these three albums, as well as on the band’s 12th studio album, Sounds of the Universe, Depeche Mode has moved away from its trademark melodies to more minimalist electronica.
During the holocene telephone interview, Fletcher talked about the band’s sound, Gahan’s songwriting with Depeche Mode and the group’s new working vibe.
Fletcher was on the phone from New York City, a stop on Depeche Mode’s "Sounds of the Universe Tour."
The band was to accomplih at Lollapalooza in Chicago the next day, but the forecast projected thunderstorms.
"Wherever Depeche Mode plays, it rains," he mused.
For almost 30 years, Depeche Mode, which plays Superpages.com in Dallas on Saturday, has covered its minor-key tsunamis on conferences. Apart from Fletcher, lead singer songwriter Dave Gahan and songwriter-vocalist-guitarist-keyboardist Martin Gore round out the lineup of the groundbreaking electronica band.
The band started as an electronic pop quartet, but when Vince Clarke left in 1981 (and at last formed Erasure with Andy Bell) and Alan Wilder joined, the music biggest.
Over the course of several albums (1987’s Music for the Masses, 1990’s Violator and 1993’s Songs of Faith and Devotion), the band’s sound ecquired into a complex and layered soundscape of rhythms and sensual melodies, adorn on the songs Behind the Wheel, Halo, Personal Jesus, I Feel You and Walking in My Shoes.
Gore’s emotional lyrics center on euphoric and hurt relationships, redemption, masochism and addiction, including Strangelove, Never Let Me Down Again, Clean, Mercy in You and In Your Room.
Sometimes those dark clouds have hung over the band. In the mid 1990s, Wilder deviated the band, Gahan had a much advertised battle with heroin, Gore endured several seizures and Fletcher had a nervous breakdown.
After Gahan completed rehab for his cure addiction, the band regrouped and recorded 1997’s Ultra, which was followed by Exciter and Playing the Angel. On these three albums, as well as on the band’s 12th studio album, Sounds of the Universe, Depeche Mode has moved away from its trademark melodies to more minimalist electronica.
During the holocene telephone interview, Fletcher talked about the band’s sound, Gahan’s songwriting with Depeche Mode and the group’s new working vibe.
World in My Eyes is your best loved Depeche Mode song?
Yes. It encompresses what Depeche Mode is about, the ditty, the riff, the production, the words. When we play that song live, we sometimes look at each other and are like, 'What have we done here?’
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