Depeche Method have started teasing the imminent launch of new songs – probable the initial solitary from their forthcoming 15th album, ‘Memento Mori’ – with a cryptic countdown revealed on their site.
Plugged with a submit on their formal Instagram account (which, at the time of composing, is the only publish they have reside on the webpage), the ominous countdown – which you can watch listed here – begun at 7 days, and is ticking down, next by second, right until 10pm BST following Saturday (February 4).
So reads a caption shared with the Instagram publish: “Time is fleeting, see what it provides.”
Clicking via to the band’s website, the real countdown is accompanied by a form inquiring enthusiasts to fill out their name and residential tackle. If you do, you will be fulfilled a message thanking you for “signing up”, as properly as back links to pre-help you save new music on streaming platforms. Depeche Method them selves have not yet verified whether or not this will be a one, ‘Memento Mori’ by itself, or a little something else completely.
The aforementioned album is due out on March 17 through Columbia and Mute. It will be the band’s first album in six years, adhering to up on 2017’s ‘Spirit’, as well as the initial release to stick to the demise of founding member Andy Fletcher the keyboardist died last May at the age of 60.
‘Memento Mori’ was declared past October alongside details of a sprawling world tour. Its title makes a immediate reference to the reduction of Fletcher – a “memento mori” is an item kept as a reminder of the inevitability of death (these as a cranium) – nevertheless according to keyboardist/guitarist/songwriter Martin Gore, it was selected just before his late bandmate’s passing.
“It sounds pretty morbid, but I believe you can glance at it pretty positively as very well,” Gore claimed in a statement, “in that [you should] are living just about every day to the max. I assume that is how we like to interpret it too… Following Fletch’s passing, we resolved to keep on as we’re guaranteed this is what he would have preferred, and that has genuinely given the challenge an more level of meaning.”
On the album’s announcement, frontman Dave Gahan opened up about it in an interview with NME, revealing that he was initially hesitant about producing a 15th Depeche Manner record: “It was not a thing I dived into, I have bought to say. At 1st I put up rather a little bit of resistance. I would say, ‘I really do not know if I however want to do this’ all the normal type of stuff, but there was a little bit far more of that than normal.”
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In other places in the chat, Gahan famous that whilst get the job done on ‘Memento Mori’ started out just before Fletcher’s loss of life, the latter did not document any content for it. He spelled out: “He never bought to hear any of it, which is seriously sad to me mainly because there are tunes on this file where by I know he’d be like, ‘This is the greatest point we have had in yrs.’ I can hear his voice. I can also listen to him indicating, ‘Does every song have to be about death?!’”
Regardless of its morose themes, Gahan confident us that ‘Memento Mori’ is ultimately rooted in positivity, getting an escape for him and Gore. “The a single thing I can do is make songs with Martin,” he claimed, “then we can go do our matter and with any luck , that provides persons with each other,” he explained. “It’s just all way too much [in the world and the news right now].
“You have to discover a area for by yourself somehow. This is what it is for us proper now: building a further file, and we’re going to go out and execute on these levels.
