Depeche Mode have carried out new single ‘Ghosts Once more’ stay for the primary time – take a look at the second under.
- READ MORE: Depeche Mode inform us about emotional new album ‘Memento Mori’ and shedding Andy Fletcher
Earlier this week, Depeche Mode returned with the dramatic new single and introduced particulars of their long-awaited new album ‘Memento Mori’.
The music had its first stay outing yesterday (February 11) at SanRemo Music Pageant in Italy and marked the primary time the band had carried out stay for the reason that demise of bandmate Andy Fletcher final yr.
Talking concerning the new music this week, frontman Dave Gahan stated: “To me, ‘Ghosts Once more’ simply captures this excellent stability of melancholy and pleasure.” Martin Gore added: “It’s not typically that we report a music that I simply don’t get sick of listening to – I’m excited to have the ability to share it.”
Due for launch on March 24, the synth-pop legends’ fifteenth upcoming studio album ‘Memento Mori’ comes previewed by ‘Ghosts Once more’ and its video by their legendary longtime visible collaborator Anton Corbijn.
You possibly can watch the band carry out the music stay under:
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— 365shiggy_RN (@9KGsDJBBapSX29c) February 12, 2023
The music sounds good stay.
However I‘m sitting right here crying as a result of Fletch is lacking. 💔#DepecheMode #GhostsAgain #MementoMori #AndyFletcher https://t.co/42inv9LhSV— karla (@miss_kattz) February 12, 2023
Chatting with NME lately, Gahan famous that though work on ‘Memento Mori’ began earlier than Fletcher’s demise, the latter didn’t report any materials for it.
“He by no means received to listen to any of it, which is actually unhappy to me as a result of there are songs on this report the place I do know he’d be like, ‘That is the very best factor we’ve had in years.’ I can hear his voice,” he stated. “I also can hear him saying, ‘Does each music must be about demise?!’”
He additionally mirrored on what it could be like performing stay with out Fletcher.
“I don’t know what that’s going to be like and I don’t know what that’s going to be like with out Fletch there,” he advised NME. “Listening to him ranting and shouting down the hallways earlier than a present, saying the wine’s not proper, all of the shit that Fletch would do which I already miss loads.”
Requested if Fletcher’s passing may change the best way he performs on the upcoming tour, Gahan replied: “No. Look, Fletch did his factor on stage however he really didn’t try this a lot musically! However he was Fletch, and that received’t be there anymore. We will’t change that. We will’t put one other Fletch there. He was one in every of a sort.
“Most of my mates after they come to the reveals, they are saying ‘Fuck, I can’t take my eyes off the geezer over there! What’s he doing?’ That was a part of Fletch’s factor and he did it rather well, so we received’t attempt to fill that gap.”
Try our full and unique interview with Gahan right here and watch under:
‘Memento Mori’ was first introduced final October alongside particulars of an in depth world tour – you possibly can take a look at the complete dates and buy any remaining tickets right here.
This week additionally noticed the band reveal particulars of the assist acts set to affix them on the North American leg of the tour, which kicks off subsequent month.
Lately, the band’s basic single ‘By no means Let Me Down Once more’ loved a 220 per cent streaming enhance, following its inclusion within the hit HBO collection The Final Of Us.
‘Memento Mori’ in the meantime can be launched on March 24 on double vinyl, CD, cassette, and digital. You possibly can pre-order it right here.
