The new-wave veterans have released the first video from their upcoming album, which is set to be released on March 24.
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| Depeche Mode Ghosts Again |
Will Andrew Fletcher's shadow loom over Depeche Mode's upcoming album? The untimely loss of its co-founder and keyboardist last May called into question the future of this iconic new-wave band. Despite being down to its hard core of Martin L. Gore and Dave Gahan, the British ensemble has announced the release of their fifteenth album, Memento Mori, on March 24.
This disc, the writing of which began during the first incarceration, may also be that of a true musical change characterized by Fletcher's absence in the studio. It is the first long-format disc from the English since the committed Spirit issued five years ago.
Ghosts Again, the duo's first single off their forthcoming album, maintains largely loyal to the synth-rock melodies proven by Depeche Mode over four decades. "Ghosts Again just nails this exact mix between grief and delight," Dave Gahan and Martin L. Gore explain in a press statement accompanying this spooky memorial to their vanished friend. The eerie clip of this piece, directed by their loyal Anton Corbijn, follows the two musicians in the middle of graves and spirits in a game of chess with a Faustian conclusion. Continued later.