Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel
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Artist: Depeche ModeEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-10-18
Music Label: Reprise / Wea
Soundtracks:
- A Pain That I?m Used To
- John The Revelator
- Suffer Well
- The Sinner In Me
- Precious
- Macro
- I Want It All
- Nothing?s Impossible
- Introspectre
- Damaged People
- Lilian
- The Darkest Star
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Free Music Review: Depeche Mode succeed!
Hit: 4 Stars
'Playing the Angel' is a welcome return by Depeche Mode. The songwriting and direction is stronger than it has been in quite a few years. Dave Gahan's contributions with his co-writing partners are definitely highlights. The relevance of DM today cannot be compared with their cutting edge existence in the 80s including Violator. Many younger artists have taken the band's baton and run with it creating such a plethora of imitators, so you can be forgiven if DM today sounds like "we've heard it all before". But these guys have been such electronic-pop warriors, expanding the appeal of the genre for close to 30 years.
This album adds to their initial vision begun decades back. I believe 'Playing the Angel' is superb. It cannot resemble earlier masterpieces without Alan Wilder, but it certainly has brought the band back into being a significant unit again. 'The Darkest Star' is my personal fave, 'Lilian' is a gorgeous slice of Depeche Mode '80s version, upgraded. Try it!
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The blasphemous opinions surrounding Depeche Mode's 2001 release Exciter were well warranted. Exciter didn't supply Depeche Mode diehards much in the way of dance tunes, and the experimental sounds drummed up by Bjork producer Mark Bell strayed from the industrial standard in an overly delicate, less than welcoming way. True fans, luckily, forgive and forget and as well they should, given Playing the Angel's return to dark, brooding greatness. The first single "Precious" is an emotionally loaded, characteristically long faced, distortion-pocked masterwork - a "Personal Jesus" level accomplishment. Also on that order are "Suffer Well;" the droning, lovely and altogether danceable "Lillian"; "I Want it All," whose muffled beats and blasts of suck-you-in static recall the industrial glory days; and the simple, synthy exercise in hyper-intelligent pop that is "John the Revelator." Those songs make it easy to salute the band for parting the sea of imitators and returning to its roots, but an obvious stain prevents Playing the Angel from being a perfect album. Two tracks are the problem. Some will find "Macrovision" lovely, but it's arguable that there's no room for trilling on a Depeche Mode disc. The same goes for "Damaged People," a dangerous, show-tune-ish flirtation. A couple of clunkers don't spoil the lot, though, and this return to form will alienate few. All hail the 80s. --Tammy La GorceThe first new album from Depeche Mode in four years, its first since 2001's gold and Top 10 Exciter, Playing The Angel is quintessential Depeche Mode-hi-tech electronic pop with enormous hooks and yet faster paced, more urgent than recent albums. The band has sold upward of 50 million records worldwide during its 25 years, but Playing The Angel sounds as fresh and exciting as any in Depeche Mode's glorious history
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