Delta machine

Delta machine
Studio album by
Publication (s)	22th of March 2013
Label (s)	Sony Music , Columbia Records
Genre (s)	Synth pop , synth rock , alternative rock , new wave
Title (number)	13
running time	57:48
occupation	Dave Gahan Martin Gore Andrew Fletcher Christian Eigner Peter Gordeno
production	Ben Hillier
Studio (s)	Sound Design (Santa Barbara), Jungle City (New York)
chronology Sounds of the Universe (2009) Delta machine Spirit (2017)
Single releases 1st February 2013 Heaven May 10, 2013 Soothe My Soul October 11, 2013 Should be higher

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Delta machine   DE 1 04/05/2013 (28 weeks)   AT 1 04/05/2013 (13 weeks)   CH 1 04/07/2013 (22 weeks)   UK 2 04/02/2013 (6 weeks)   US 6th 04/05/2013 (9 weeks)

Singles

Heaven   DE 2 02/18/2013 (10 weeks)   AT 22nd 02/15/2013 (4 weeks)   CH 18th 02/17/2013 (6 weeks)   UK 60 03/30/2013 (1 week) All that's mine   DE 86 02/18/2013 (1 week) Soothe My Soul   DE 22nd 05/27/2013 (5 weeks) Should be higher   DE 19th 10/21/2013 (2 weeks)

Delta Machine is the thirteenth studio album by British group Depeche Mode . It was released in Germany on March 22, 2013, but could already be heard from March 19, 2013 on the US iTunes website and in German-speaking countries on MyVideo .

In addition to the mandatory CD version, the album was also released as a deluxe edition with two CDs.

In May 2013 the band started the Delta Machine Tour through Europe's stadiums and ended it in early March 2014 after 106 concerts in Moscow's Olimpijski . The Delta Machine Tour reached number 1 of the most profitable tours in autumn 2013, and it was number 9 worldwide throughout 2013. In the end, over 2.4 million people took part in the 32-country tour.

In November 2014, a recording of the tour was released as a live album and DVD box set entitled Live in Berlin , which was recorded at O2 World Berlin in 2013. Directed by Anton Corbijn . The concert was shown in advance in Germany in selected United Cinemas International , Cineplex and Cinecittà Nuremberg . The DVD entered the German album charts at number two immediately after its release.

Emergence

After the end of the Tour of the Universe in early 2010, the band members initially went their separate ways. Dave Gahan worked with the Soulsavers on The Light the Dead See (2012) album , for which Gahan wrote and sang the songs. Martin Gore started the minimal techno project VCMG with former Depeche Mode member Vince Clarke , which released the album Ssss in 2012 .

In March 2012, the band began recording the next studio album. In advance, Gahan and Gore had written around 20 demo songs. As with the two previous albums, Ben Hillier was hired as producer, but Gore wanted to be more involved in the production than before.

Like the two previous albums, Delta Machine contains three songs written by Dave Gahan. Two more of the songs written together with Kurt Uenala are on the bonus CD of the Deluxe Edition.

Mixed was Delta Machine by Flood , who as a producer of the albums Violator (1990) and Songs of Faith and Devotion (1993) participated.

Track list

Standard album

1. Welcome to My World - 4:57
2. Angel - 3:58
3. Heaven - 4:04
4. Secret to the End - 5:10 (Dave Gahan, Kurt Uenala)
5. My Little Universe - 4:24
6. Slow - 3:46
7. Broken - 3:56 (Dave Gahan, Kurt Uenala)
8. The Child Inside - 4:15
9. Soft Touch / Raw Nerve - 3:24
10. Should Be Higher - 5:04 (Dave Gahan, Kurt Uenala)
11. Alone - 4:28
12. Soothe My Soul - 5:18
13. Goodbye - 5:03

Unless otherwise stated, the songs were written by Martin Gore.

Deluxe edition

In addition to the standard album, this edition includes a second CD with four bonus tracks and a 28-page hardcover booklet.

CD 2 - bonus tracks Long Time Lie - 4:24 (Gahan, Gore) Happens All the Time - 4:19 (Gahan, Uenala) Always - 5:06 All That's Mine - 3:25 (Gahan, Uenala)

Single releases

Heaven

As the first single from Delta Machine , “Heaven” was released on February 1, 2013 in Germany and reached number 2 in the single charts. The B-side "All That's Mine", written by Dave Gahan, placed itself on 86.

The video for "Heaven" was shot in November 2012 and was directed by Timothy Saccenti .

Soothe My Soul

On March 28, 2013 the video for the planned second single Soothe My Soul was released . The director was Warren Fu , who has worked on the Star Wars prequels as a concept artist .

The single was released on May 10, 2013 in Germany.

Should be higher

The third single from the album was released on October 11, 2013 in Germany. It is the band's third single written by Dave Gahan, after Suffer Well (2005) and Hole to Feed (2009).

The accompanying music video was released in August 2013, directed by Anton Corbijn . It shows a live recording of the song from the concerts in the Olympiastadion Berlin , Olympiastadion Munich and in the Leipzig Central Stadium ( Red Bull Arena ).

publication

In Germany, 142,000 copies were sold in digital and physical form in the first week after the album was released, making it the most successful first-week album sales in Germany in three and a half years. In the USA, 52,000 copies of the album were sold in the first week and thus reached the top 10 of the US charts.

reception

The reviews were mixed to positive. While Sascha Kösch described Delta Machine in De: Bug as the band's “first bad album” and Birgit Fuß criticized the German-language edition of Rolling Stone for the fact that Depeche Mode played in stadiums but could no longer write hits, according to opinion, the album offers by Michael Schuh in laut.de "more than you would have to bring in the U2 / RHCP league". Douglas Wolk finally praises the vocals of Gahan and Gore on Pitchfork , but misses fresh ideas on the album. Stephan Müller from Plattentests.de came to the conclusion: "Judging" Delta machine "ad hoc is as valuable as picking apples when the tree has not yet been planted. Many songs want to mature and be developed, [...] Standing still is the futurist's step backwards. How nice that Depeche Mode are not too lazy to run. ”Felix Johannes Enzian of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung's criticism was even more positive :“ Pop music usually derives its vitality from the exuberance of youth. Reviewers who claim that a new work by well-aged pop artists surpasses all their previous ones should not be believed, but rather assume that such judgments also include wishful thinking due to old attachment. However, there is an exception here. After hot tears and happy dances around the desk, at least the reviewer says: 'Delta Machine' is the most beautiful record Depeche Mode have ever made. "

useful information

• As in earlier albums, Anton Corbijn designed the cover for the album . He wrote:

"The background photograph i shot in New York and the cover + logo i designed in Hamburg, during the filming of A Most Wanted Man . I wanted the cover to reflect something raw, industrial, independent, and have a graphic vibe to it. This is the 10th album i worked on for DM and the 8th album front-cover that i designed for them, including the Best Of record. There will be a special edition cd that has a 28 page booklet which contains many pages of photographs from shoots we did in New York and Louisiana. "

- Anton Corbijn

• In the video game Injustice: Gods Among Us , which was released in 2013, the song Angel is included.
• Immediately after the The Delta Machine tour , Martin Gore went back to the music studio to revise those songs that had already been written that had not appeared on the album and to publish them in the solo album MG at the end of April 2015.

Web links

• Felix Bayer: New Depeche Mode album: Der Phantomschmerz - Review on Spiegel Online , March 19, 2013.
• Tobias Böckermann: Depeche Mode are reinventing themselves with their 13th album "Delta Machine". In: New Osnabrück Newspaper . March 21, 2013, archived from the original on May 19, 2013 ; Retrieved March 21, 2013 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
2. ↑ Rolling Stone : Tour Success - Depeche Mode are number one live big earners
3. ↑ http://www.statista.com/statistics/278378/the-most-successful-music-tours-worldwide/
4. ↑ depechemode.de: “Live in Berlin”: Mega box set and acoustic performance in the puff
5. ↑ Cinemas show the premiere of “Live in Berlin”
6. ↑ The official German album charts. . GfK Entertainment. November 28, 2014. Retrieved December 13, 2014.
7. ↑ Dave Gahan talks about the new Depeche Mode album and tour 2013. depechemode.de, March 3, 2012, accessed on February 17, 2013 . 
8. ↑ DepecheMode.de: This is the video clip for the new Depeche Mode song Heaven , February 1st, 2013
9. ↑ Rolling Stone : Depeche Mode Video Premiere: 'Soothe My Soul'
10. ↑ Warren Fu's production company
11. ^ Warren Fu in the Internet Movie Database
12. ↑ Charts.de: Depeche Mode with the most successful album start in three and a half years
13. ↑ Billboard .com: Justin Timberlake's '20/20 'Spends Second Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200
14. ↑ De: Bug reviews , March 27, 2013
15. ^ Rolling Stone , April 3, 2013
16. ↑ laut.de , March 22, 2013
17. ^ Pitchfork , March 28, 2013
18. ↑ Plattentests.de: Criticism Depeche Mode - Delta machine
19. ↑ Felix Johannes Enzian: Leave the tranquilizers at home. In: FAZ.net. March 23, 2013, accessed February 13, 2015.
20. ↑ DepecheMode.de: Electronic in Sci-Fi-Sound - Martin Gore: New album MG published . , accessed April 30, 2015.