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100
Memento Mori stands with the best of their career, a potent reminder that the underlying meaning of the Latin expression is not to fear death, but to treasure what life we have.
100
Depeche Mode's hymns to love and loss sound as vital as ever.
90
Though not their most immediate offering, Memento Mori is their most heartfelt, thoughtful, and moving statement in decades.
90
After almost 40 years in the business, Depeche Mode are still at the top of their game and ready to explore their vulnerabilities in new and intense ways. Memento Mori is not a one-listen album; take a few rounds to wrap your head around all the little details and let your favourite song change with every listen.
90
Memento Mori is as great as some of their 80s and 90s music and is an album Andy Fletcher would be proud of.
82
Where their last few records made it hard to reach the finale in one sitting, by the time “Speak To Me” comes around, it feels like Memento Mori has just started a minute ago.
80
Andy Fletcher’s two surviving bandmates reflect on mortality on an album of warm, weird electro-pop.
80
On Memento Mori, Depeche Mode turn this philosophical reminder into a beautiful, raw, and passionate rebirth.
80
Inventive and surprising, the band have turned grief into one of their best albums for 20 years.
80
The pace stays slow, the mood gloomy: this is serious music for a serious band.
80
Dave Gahan and Martin Gore’s first album since the death of their bandmate Tony Fletcher offers a more nuanced side of their dark electronic sound.
80
Though not at the level of his powerhouse tones of the eighties and nineties, Gahan is consistently impressive throughout ‘Memento Mori’.
80
Following the passing of beloved bandmate Andy Fletcher, the now-duo reunite on a touching, resurgent record.
80
Memento Mori has disrupted this familiar groove, and it’s a welcome and even merciful intervention.
80
On their 15th full-length, the pioneering synth-pop group — now a duo — questions mortality with their characteristic musical beauty and lyrical depth.
80
These songs have an impressive vehemency.
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1w
80
Their most powerful work this century. It's the sound of a band entering a final act with a renewed sense of purpose, and sharp, sober new focus.
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3w
74
Memento Mori’s biggest flaw is the middle section, as the respective songs don’t really stand out. Of course, they remain decent at the very least, “Before We Drown” being perhaps the one to return to most. Other than that, this is another solid Depeche Mode album with a handful of highlights that fans should definitely add to their playlists.
71
On their most engaged album in a quarter-century, Martin Gore and Dave Gahan find that familiar sounds can offer several new ways forward.
70
A post-Fletch Depeche Mode channel grief into deluxe autumnal electro-blues on fifteenth studio album Memento Mori.
70
Depeche Mode’s Memento Mori is a testament to the power of art to call us to see more clearly in the absence of resolution.
17h
2023 seems to be the year of the return of 80s music icons, and I'm all for this happening.
Depeche Mode's 15th album Memento Mori explores themes of morality as well as death, and they're approached with a deeply poetic edge that cuts deep, especially after the death of banf member Andy Fletcher last year.
Now, Violator is one of my favourite albums of all-time due to it's fresh synthpop sound that had a more gothic rock touch to it, so it's curious to see how a band who has been on the go ... read more
I was never the biggest fan of Depeche Mode, so I wasn't expecting much from this despite liking the single Ghosts Again.
And I kinda like this thing tbh. It was nice, obviously nothing mindblowing but I did enjoy it.
The production is nice and while the vocals aren't the best, considering this is so late into their career and still good is immpressive.
Definitely worth a listen!
FAV TRACKS: Speak to Me, Ghosts Again, Never Let Me Go
LEAST FAV TRACKS: Always You
there is more of a sense of grief with this album compared to their past work, which is only in part due to the tragic loss this band faced recently, but it rings true in how consistently forlorn it is even at it's "heaviest" moments. the themes of death, as well as all the subtle references to their previous songs in both the song titles and the lyrics, certainly begs the question of whether or not this will be Depeche Mode's final record. whether or not that ends up being true, ... read more
Unpopular opinion: I don't get why people like this album so much.
I listened to this whole project and just felt like it was a decent project. There are some good parts of the music on here but I just thought a lot of the track were just pretty okay. The production from James Ford on here is quite nice on here and I enjoyed the vocal performances from Dave Gahan but there just wasn't a lot going on for me to enjoy the project that much. I don't think this style of music is my thing because I ... read more
Much more accessible than Spirit (which I had a hard time liking), and much warmer and human than Delta Machine. Thank you Mr Butler for igniting a somewhat different spark in the writing!
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Track List
| 1 | My Cosmos Is Mine 5:16 | 84 |
| 2 | Wagging Tongue 3:24 | 78 |
| 3 | Ghosts Again 3:58 | 91 |
| 4 | Don't Say You Love Me 3:48 | 84 |
| 5 | My Favourite Stranger 3:57 | 81 |
| 6 | Soul With Me 4:15 | 84 |
| 7 | Caroline's Monkey 4:16 | 73 |
| 8 | Before We Drown 4:05 | 83 |
| 9 | People Are Good 4:24 | 79 |
| 10 | Always You 4:18 | 80 |
| 11 | Never Let Me Go 4:03 | 83 |
| 12 | Speak To Me 4:35 | 85 |
Total Length: 50 minutes
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2d
i literally only got into depeche mode around the end of january this year and then i find out that they're releasing a new album and the new album ends up being fucking fire?!?! like bro
3d
Wasn't expecting Depeche Mode to release one of the best albums of the year, yet here we are
3d
man its so cool to see a band that have been around so long create such a fantastic album. currently on track 7 and THE ALBUM IS SO GOOD!!!!
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Added on: October 3, 2022