Depeche Mode has returned with its first album since the death of founding member Andy Fletcher. It focuses, unsurprisingly, on the subject of life.
sums up life for his band since the death of founding keyboardist Andy"Fletch" Fletcher in 2022. Gahan and co-founder Martin Gore forged ahead on their latest album without him; it's calledIt's a theme that runs throughout the album."Mortality, death, you know, and living! It's about living here now with what we have," Gahan told NPR's Leila Fadel.
Gahan wrote three of the songs on the album – a big change from Martin Gore's usual domination of those duties. But they came to an understanding while making their previous record, 2017's"I wouldn't say we came to blows," Gahan said,"but we came close. You know, the gauntlet was laid down and it was like, 'Hey, look, I write songs too, and I want as much attention with those songs as you get.
Gahan struggled with the idea of making another Depeche Mode album, and says the song"Speak To Me" was partially an imagined conversation he had with a"larger force" about that question."Because I felt really torn between jumping into making another Depeche Mode record or, as I had been for the last couple of years for the first time in my life, home with friends and family and my animals. And just living a life and really enjoying that.
He says the exhaustion that sets in during a long tour sometimes makes the decision for him."Always when it ends, I walk away from it feeling, I'm done now, you know? That's it. I did my job."
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