Thursday, April 23, 2009

DEPECHE MODE, Sounds of the So-so-verse

The funnest part of this review is that I had a Twitter conversation about the actual unit of measure of a 'butt load' while settling down to write. I say it's half of a 'shit load'. 2 shit loads = 1 fuck load. Or, 1 butt = 126 gallons (look it up yourself). This album sounds like a remix of Black Celebration and Songs of Faith & Devotion - without the structure of BC and the passion of SOFAD with a dash of Construction Time Again to hold it all together. It's not a terrible record. I can listen to most of it. They're really paying an homage to themselves, you can pick out riffs from past albums. Hole to Feed is the best track and oddly it sounds nothing like rest. Jezebel, Wrong, and Peace are not ever going to make it into rotation. But you know what I say? As long as people are buying it, you should keep selling it. There is definitely something undeniably sexy about Mr. Ghan's voice.


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