After all that, a cowboy song?! “It was you who took my soul and threw it on the fire”. This is blues-influenced yes, but again the acoustic guitar is perfectly embedded in the electronics and as the track progresses a great twinkling synth part sits over Gahan’s vocals. You might have expected ‘Goodbye’ to be some kind of ballady coda, but no, they’ve kept it rigid right up to the end. [Source]
Hey Depeche Mode fans, here’s a killer live cover of a little known Speak and Spell B-side called “Ice Machine,” featuring the soaring lead vocals of recent M83 collaborator Susanne Sundfør. Available as a proper studio recording on Record Store Day over in the UK, the track will be pressed on a limited red 10” and presented as part of a Late Nite Tales mix from Röyksopp this spring. [Source]
As is becoming common practice these days, there’s also a deluxe edition of Delta Machine available that adds four more tracks after “Goodbye”. Aside from somewhat spoiling the album’s carefully-considered curtain call, the bonus tracks don’t add or detract from the proper LP, instead being more variations on the established themes and sounds (for the curious and/or completist, do note that “Always” stands out more than the others due to its use of electronic tones that could come straight out of an eight-bit video game and Martin Gore’s borrowing a hook from “I Feel Love”). [Source]
…and here come the blues as we reach the halfway mark, and presumably it’s MartinGore on the electric guitar. It fits perfectly with the rest of the album though thanks to the fact that it’s electronics that still dominate, and the rhythm has quite a lascivious groove. It’s apt, as Dave Gahan is getting sleazy here: “slow as I can go / That’s how I like it / I don’t need a race in my bed / the speed’s in my heart / the speed’s in my head”. There’s a noise in the background that sounds like one of those things you used to have that went ‘wurgle’ when you turned them up and down, but this one belongs to a naughty robot. [Source]
Slow, slow, as slow as you can go
So I can feel all I want to know
Slow, slow
I’ll go with your flow
Let the world keep its carnival pace
I prefer to look into your beautiful face
What a waste
Let the stars continue to fly by
I don’t have one desire to understand why
I don’t try
Slow, slow, as slow as you can go
I want my senses to overflow
Slow, slow
And doesn’t it show
I don’t need a race in my bed
When the speed’s in my heart and the speed’s in my head
Instead
It’s tempting for fools to rush in
When something’s so good why should we rush a thing
It’s a sin
Slow, slow, slow as you can go
That’s how I like it
I like it
I don’t need a race in my bed
When the speed’s in my heart and the speed’s in my head
Instead
Slow, slow, slow as you can go
That’s how I like it
I like it
That’s how I like it
That’s how I like it
Static… a power station whoomp… huge blasts… wait a minute, has someone put on a new album from the Raster-Noton label by mistake!? Depeche Mode’s 13th studio album sure starts with one hell of a noisy, avant-techno surprise. But then Dave Gahan’ quite delicate vocal comes in by way of a contrast “welcome to my world / leave your tranquilisers at home / you don’t need them any more”. Is this a State Of Depeche Mode? “All the drama queens are gone,” he sings, “the Devil got this made”. The track builds into a huge chorus refrain of “welcome to my world” as the noise keeps going, ripping and sounding very analogue with a pile of strings underneath. There’s a lot of bluster here, but it holds up well. The devil/soul/bleed/dreams/control familiar Gahan themes. [Source]
Welcome to my world
Step right through the door
Leave your tranquilizers at home
You don’t need them anymore
All the dramaqueens have gone
And the devil got dismayed
He backed up and fled this town
His masterplan delayed
And if you stay a while
I’ll penetrate your soul
I’ll bleed into your dreams
You’ll want to lose control
I’ll weep into your eyes
I’ll make your vision sing
I’ll open endless skies
And ride your broken wings
Welcome to my world
Welcome to my world
Welcome to my world
Watch the sunrise set
And the moon begin to blush
I’m naked in a search
Translucently too much
And I hold you in my arms
I keep you by my side
And we sleep the devil’s sleep
Just to keep him satisfied
And if you stay a while
I’ll penetrate your soul
I’ll bleed into your dreams
You’ll want to lose control
I’ll weep into your eyes
I’ll make your vision sing
I’ll open endless skies
And ride your broken wings
Welcome to my world
Welcome to my world
Welcome to my world
The second single – and the third blog single – from the Depeche Mode album “Delta Machine” will be the track “Soothe My Soul”. Reported by depechemode.de citing a telephone interview with Andy Fletcher for the Serbian news agency Beta Agencija. [Source]
Here are the 20 most popular blog singles on New Music United this month:
UPDATE! Here are the promo only Freemasons mixes:
Exclusive Kernfusion Remix:
*** BREAKING NEWS: Watch the brand new music video on REALVJ.COM here!! ***
“I want people to feel good about listening to this record, to get some kind of peace. It’s just got something magical about it.” – Martin L. Gore
Heaven [official web site] is Depeche Mode’s 50th UK single, and the first taken from their thirteenth studio album Delta Machine. Listen to the single on the official Depeche Mode Vimeo channel via the radio station KROQ here. Listen to a podcast of a KROQ radio show with Dave Gahan as guest here.
The tracklisting for the “Heaven” CD single is as follows:
“Heaven” CD SINGLE:
1 – Heaven
2 – All That’s Mine (b side bonus track)
“Heaven” CD MAXI:
1 – Heaven
2 – Heaven (Owlle Remix)
3 – Heaven (steps to heaven rmx)
4 – Heaven (Blawan Remix)
5 – Heaven (Mathew Dear vs Audion Remix)
Press clips:
Fun fact:
Note the Mute logo on the Columbia Records/Sony Music release.
Lyrics:
Compulsion is a cover version of a Joe Crow (from The Nightingales) song. Counterfeit e.p. is the first solo recording by Martin L. Gore, the primary songwriter for the band Depeche Mode. Released in 1989, Counterfeit is a six-song E.P. of cover songs, hence the name, implying that the songs were not written by Gore. Counterfeit was recorded during a band hiatus after recording and touring for the album Music for the Masses; bandmate Alan Wilder also recorded and released Hydrology under the pseudonym Recoil during this period. Even though the release is strictly an EP, Mute issued it an album catalogue number (STUMM67) upon release. In France and Germany a promo single for “In a Manner of Speaking” was released.
[Inspired by Bryan Black]
Longtime underground favourites for their pioneering use of synthesizers in alternative rock, Depeche Mode finally scored their first (and only) Top Ten single in the U.S. with “Enjoy the Silence,” the second single from their 1990 best-seller Violator. From haunting melodies to gothic choirs and funky percussion, it’s a real journey, and a memorably superb track.
