Depeche Mode
Feb 3, 2013
Depeche Mode will be coming out with their 13th studio album on March 26th entitled Delta Machine on Columbia Records. They will debut their video for their first single, "Heaven" on February 1st. The album, recorded over the last year in Santa Barbara, CA and New York City, was produced by Ben Hillier and mixed by Flood. Alongside a standard CD format, Depeche Mode will release Delta Machine in an exclusive Deluxe Edition with four additional new tracks and accompanied by a 28 page hardcover book including photos by longtime artistic collaborator Anton Corbijn.
Martin Gore said of the release, "Writing this album was incredibly daunting as I wanted the sound of this collection to be very modern. I want people to feel good about listening to this record, to get some kind of peace. It's just got something magical about it."
Dave Gahan added, "With this release we've completely shifted our idea of how to create an album. When we hit a wall where we realize the album is beginning to sound too normal, we'll mess it up and really give it that organic Depeche Mode Sound. Delta Machine is no different, and I can't wait for all of our fans to hear it."
Gahan (lead vocals) and Gore (keyboards, guitar, vocals), and Andy Fletcher (keyboards) are part of the band's original four-piece lineup from their 1981 debut album, Speak & Spell. Depeche Mode have had 48 songs in the UK Singles Chart and 12 top 10 albums in the UK charts, two of which debuted at No. 1.
Following the release of their new album, Depeche Mode will embark on a European stadium tour, kicking off in Tel Aviv's Hayarkon Park on May 7th. They will perform 34 shows in 25 European countries, featuring appearances at Milan's famed San Siro Stadium, the Stade De France in Paris, and Moscow's Locomotive Stadium before wrapping up the European leg of their tour in Minsk, Belarus on July 29th. A full North American tour will follow, with details to be announced soon.
The tracklisting for Delta Machine is:
- Welcome To My World
- Angel
- Heaven
- Secret To The End
- My Little Universe
- Slow
- Broken
- The Child Inside
- Soft Touch / Raw Nerve
- Should Be Higher
- Alone
- Soothe My Soul
- Goodbye