BERLIN —
British electronic music pioneers Depeche Mode announced a comeback on Tuesday
with an upcoming new album and their first tour in more than five years,
following the death of founding member Andrew Fletcher.
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Lead singer Dave
Gahan said the new record Memento Mori, due out in March, was inspired both by
the pandemic and the loss of Fletcher, who died in May from a tear in his heart
artery.
Gahan, 60, told
reporters in the
German capital that the band, after a long absence, was ready
to embrace its fans again with a series of big stadium shows also beginning in
March, in Sacramento.
“We get to make
music and we get to play music for you and hopefully bring a sense of joy and
togetherness, you know, in our own small way, in a world that seems to be
constantly in some kind of turmoil,” he said of their 19th tour.
The band, one of
Britain’s most successful and long-running acts, had tantalized fans last week
with a cryptic teaser on Instagram showing only grainy footage of a music
mixing console and the words “Berlin 4.10.22”.
Credited with
bringing electronic music into the mainstream, the band last released a studio
album, “Spirit”, in 2017. “Memento Mori” will be their 15th studio record.
Depeche Mode
triumphed with a string of hits in the 1980s and early 1990s, at first becoming
synonymous with danceable synthpop but then gradually adopting a darker sound.
The band has sold
more than 100 million albums since it began in 1980, winning over a global
audience with earworms such as “Personal Jesus”, “People Are People”, and
“Enjoy the Silence”.
The group has nevertheless maintained an underground appeal,
even as it was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020.
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