BERLIN, Oct 4 (Reuters) – British digital music pioneers Depeche Mode introduced a brand new album and world tour on Tuesday, their first because the demise of founding member Andrew Fletcher this 12 months.
In a press occasion livestreamed from Berlin, singer Dave Gahan and guitarist and keyboardist Martin Gore mentioned they had been nonetheless engaged on “Memento Mori”, their fifteenth studio album because the band initially shaped in Basildon, jap England in 1980.
The title, which means “Keep in mind you could die”, was chosen earlier than Fletcher, the band’s keyboard participant, died in Might.
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“We’re fairly far into it now within the precise recording course of. We have the entire tracks completed form of for the album with out them being combined,” Gore mentioned.
“All the songs and even the album title was form of determined earlier than Andy handed. (The title) sounds very morbid however I feel you possibly can have a look at it very positively as properly in that reside every day to the max. That is how we wish to interpret it too.”
A lot of the songs had been penned throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, with their themes impressed by that interval, Gore mentioned in a press release on the band’s web site.
“After Fletch’s passing, we determined to proceed as we’re positive that is what he would have wished, and that has actually given the undertaking an additional degree of which means,” he mentioned.
Fletcher died after struggling an aortic dissection. He was 60. Gore and Gahan returned to the studio in July.
“Many occasions we’d joke or issues would come up and naturally we missed Fletch,” Gahan mentioned in Berlin.
The band will kick off a world tour to help the album’s spring launch, in March.
“That course of remains to be taking place, what we will be doing on stage, how we will do it, what visuals we will use,” Gahan mentioned, when requested what stage tributes the band had been planning for Fletcher.
“He’ll be there in spirit anyway, I am positive, judging us.”
Depeche Mode, identified for songs similar to “Private Jesus” and “Benefit from the Silence”, launched their first album “Communicate & Spell” in 1981, putting them on the centre of Britain’s new wave scene.
They launched their final studio album, “Spirit”, in 2017.
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Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian, enhancing by Ed Osmond
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