I find myself as a teenager listening to them, and I think the first song that came out a couple of days ago - Heaven - is a refined slow ballad imbued with lyricism thanks in particular to the excellent vocal performance by Dave Gahan, who seems to be in really good shape.
The gothic, somewhat blasphemous, and even fetish elements of the video reveal the dual personality of the group, which can be as impervious to external pressures as it is full of poetry that can rarely caress the heart. In short, beautiful (and not edited in video, with wrinkles and salt-and-pepper hair and beard) and damned, like some verses of baudlerian memory.
I believe they are their source of inspiration: Baudelaire. I know well how much pain, how much sweat it takes on the burning hill, under the scorching sun, for me to have a soul, and for life to flow within me. Depeche I will end up dust I’m in heaven I stand in golden rays radiantly I burn a fire of love. And I could go on for long, actually #over and over, but I wouldn’t want to bore you.
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By Darius
'Heaven is certainly a track that rewards the versatility of the historic formation and the commendable attempt to break away from the now oversaturated commercial synthpop.'
'The lead single unfortunately fails to replicate the power of past openers and is not the classic bearer of retro-synth energy à la Precious.'