'Memento Mori' review: Depeche Mode face down death and the abyss


By AGENCY
File photo taken on October 4, 2022 of members of the English electronic music band Depeche Mode, Martin Gore (left) and Dave Gahan. – Photo: AFP

And then there were only two. Depeche Mode have always been a genre unto itself: a vibe, a sort of feedback loop that is timeless yet nostalgic, dark, edgy, a little too dark sometimes but always so cool.

Their 15th studio album titled Memento Mori (Latin for "remember you will die") feels both like a tribute to founding member and keyboardist Andy Fletcher who died in May 2022 and left them a duo (Dave Gahan and Martin Gore) and a mission statement of their music.

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Full-fletched Depeche, fully intoxicating in sound, artistically evocative and sometimes puzzling.

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