DEPECHE MODE: “Memento Mori” limited red 2LP

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DEPECHE MODE: “Memento Mori” limited red 2LP. Released 24th March 2023

Memento Mori (stylized as “Memento | Mori” on the album cover) is the upcoming fifteenth studio album by Depeche Mode (stylized as “Depeche|MODE” on the album cover), set to be released on 24 March 2023, through Columbia and Mute. The album was produced by James Ford and Marta Salogni. It was preceded by the single “Ghosts Again” and the track “My Cosmos Is Mine” (released on streaming platforms), and will be the first Depeche Mode studio album to be released after the death of co-founder and keyboardist Andy Fletcher on 26 May 2022. The album will be promoted by the Memento Mori World Tour.

On 26 May 2022, Andy Fletcher unexpectedly died, with the cause of death later being revealed to be aortic dissection. Although work on the album began prior to Fletcher’s death, Dave Gahan stated in an interview with NME that Fletcher did not record any material for the album.

“We started work on this project early in the pandemic, and its themes were directly inspired by that time. After Fletch’s passing, we decided to continue as we’re sure this is what he would have wanted, and that has really given the project an extra level of meaning.”

— Martin Gore on the creating process of the album:
“The album’s 12 tracks chart a vast expansion of moods and textures, from its ominous opening to its closing resolve—running the gamut from paranoia and obsession to catharsis and joy, and hitting myriad points between”.

SIDE 1
My Cosmos Is Mine
Wagging Tongue
Ghosts Again
Don’t Say You Love Me

SIDE 2
My Favourite Stranger
Soul With Me
Caroline’s Monkey
Before We Drown

SIDE 3
People Are Good
Always You
Never Let Me Go
Speak To Me

SIDE 4
Etching