The British group Depeche Mode announced this Tuesday, October 4 the release of a 15th album, “Memento Mori”, in March 2023, which will be followed by a world tour including a visit to Paris. An event without founding member Andy Fletcher, who died last May.
During a press conference organized this Tuesday in Berlin, the pioneer group of synthetic pop Depeche Mode created a surprise. A new album called “Memento Mori” will be unveiled next March and will be accompanied by a series of concerts around the world. The first tour for five years and especially without the late keyboardist Andy Fletcherwho died a few months ago at just 60 years old.
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“We have the opportunity to make music and play it for you, hoping to bring you a sense of joy and solidarity, on our small scale, in a world that seems to be constantly in the throes of some form of turmoil. said the band’s lead singer, Dave Gahan.
Inspired by both the pandemic and the sudden loss of their friend, the album will precede a tour, the band’s 19th, which will begin in March in California, Sacramento. Concerts are notably planned in London, Berlin and Paris.
“Of course we missed ‘Fletch'”
“When we were in the studio, we often joked and talked about certain things, and of course we missed ‘Fletch’,” said Dave Gahan, adding that Andy Fletcher will be on the tour “in spirit, for judge (them).
Author of the hits “Just can’t get enough”, “Everything Counts”, “Never Let Me Down Again” or “Walking in my Shoes”, Depeche Mode has sold more than one hundred million records worldwide. Pioneers of synthetic pop in the early 1980s, they developed this genre to free themselves from it by opening up to guitars in the early 1990s.
The group inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020, which originally included keyboardist and songwriter Vince Clarke, keyboardist, singer and songwriter Martin Gore, keyboardist Andy Fletcher and singer and songwriter Dave Gahan , enjoyed immense success with the album “Violator” (1990), which notably includes the hits “Personal Jesus” and “Enjoy the Silence”.
Vince Clarke left the band at the end of 1981 and was replaced two years later by Alan Wilder.
Depeche mode’s last studio album, “Spirit”, was released in 2017, and was also followed by a tour in Europe and the American continent.