Critical reception Professional ratings Aggregate scores 14, selling 32,000 equivalent album units in its opening week, marking the first time since 1987's Music for the Masses that the band failed to break into the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 chart. In the US, the album debuted and peaked at No. 2 with 17,867 sales and 15,209 coming from physical format. On 19 February 2023, "My Favourite Stranger" was debuted live in Munich, Germany at a special fan event. On 14 February 2023, "Wagging Tongue" was debuted live in La Plaine-Saint-Denis, France. On 11 February 2023, the band debuted "Ghosts Again" live in Sanremo, Italy.
On Volt Magazin's website, it was confirmed that "Dave Gahan and Martin Gore said there were five finished tracks that didn't make it onto the long player." Live debuts
MEMENTO MORI NECKLACE FULL
The full tracklist of 12 songs was also announced. Martin Gore on the creating process of the album, Live Nation Entertainment Ī description of the album appeared on the band's official website: "The album's 12 tracks chart a vast expansion of moods and textures, from its ominous opening to its closing resolve-running the gamut from paranoia and obsession to catharsis and joy, and hitting myriad points between". In August 2022, a photo of Gore and Gahan in the studio was shared on social media, indicating they were in the studio working on new material. I don’t care who wrote them, but they were some great songs.” "I was like, '.The fuck is this?' Then Martin explained that during COVID he and Richard had written some songs together. "Martin sent me about six songs, and Richard Butler was singing on a few of them," Dave Gahan recalled. Gore said the songs were too good to be a side project, and so Depeche Mode put them on the album although Butler was never going to join the band.
He sent some lyrics, Gore added the music, and they went back and forth. In April 2020, Butler reached out to Gore to write songs together. In the same NME interview, Martin Gore also explained how Richard Butler ended up co-writing seven songs for the album. Although songwriting and demo work on the album began prior to Fletcher's death, Dave Gahan stated in an interview with NME that Fletcher did not record nor hear any material for the album. On, Andy Fletcher unexpectedly died, with the cause of death later being revealed to be aortic dissection. The album is promoted by the Memento Mori World Tour. It was preceded by the single " Ghosts Again" on 9 February and the track "My Cosmos Is Mine" on 9 March (released on streaming platforms), and is the first Depeche Mode studio album to be recorded and released as a duo, after the death of co-founder and keyboardist Andy Fletcher on. Memento Mori (stylised as " Memento| Mori" on the album cover) is the fifteenth studio album by Depeche Mode (stylised as " Depeche| Mode" on the album cover), released on 24 March 2023 through Columbia and Mute.
0 kommentar(er)
