DEPECHE MODE A Broken Frame - 2011 US reissue LP, pressed on 180 gram vinyl
Format: Vinyl Condition: New Year of Release: 2011 Cat. No.: 02340440 Label: Sire Records
Now, I must admit to being a fairly big Depeche Mode fan - but I am really into their later stuff as they became more synth-rock than synth-pop. I have only just gotten around to buying "A Broken Frame" (it's been out for years), and until now I hadn't heard it for a long while.
This is one of the first albums (maybe the first - can't recall!), written by Martin Gore. Erasure's Vince Clarke wrote their even earlier stuff before he left the group. I have to say it isn't half bad, and some of the tracks would stand up now in the pop charts; Leave In Silence, Shouldn't Have Done that and My Secret Garden being my three particular faves.
Most of the album is quite easy-listenning synth-pop, and for a change with DM there's a fair bit of male-voice-harmony. You'll have to forgive them for "A Photograph of You" - after all every album has at least one dud track - but the rest is well worth having in your collection...... even if it is only to take you back to the Glorious Eighties.
Review by A. S. Garton
TRACK LISTING:
1. Leave In Silence 2. My Secret Garden 3. Monument 4. Nothing To Fear 5. See You 6. Satellite 7. The Meaning Of Love 8. A Photograph Of You 9. Shouldn't Have Done That 10. The Sun And The Rainfall
