James Arden checks out the garage rockers latest album.
The Christian rock band from Brighton bring religion to the masses.
Recipe for modern R'n'B album: liberal helpings of guest rappers and an overdose of sexual euphemisms.
Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode's latest single is good value for money. The disc contains four tracks, three of which are remixes and quite lengthy ones at that. Good. Now the positives are out the way... This CD isn't bad as such, it's just very very mediocre.
The single itself, 'Saw Something' begins as the sound of a moody fifth former whining over the soundtrack to a Super Mario game (one of the sinister stages, in the dungeon with the armoured tortoises). It slowly mutates into a passable industrial power ballad, but it just doesn't possess the kind of attitude that made Depeche Mode's finest songs such guilty pleasures.
The second track is called Deeper and Deeper and is a lot better. It rolls along in a locomotive fashion (the same rhythm as Trans Europe Express by Kraftwerk if you're wondering what locomotive sounds like) with a heavy electronic beat while Dave Gahan sneers agressively over the top. You might think it's pretty good even, until you start to focus on the lyrics.
Depeche Mode have been around since 1980 yet their perspective doesn't seem to have changed at all since then. Lyrics like 'I'm gonna have you when i want you/ I'm gonna take you that's what I like' are silly coming from a snotty little punk, nevermind a forty five year old father of two. There must be something about life that makes this guy happy and if not, he could at least try to approach the subject of abject misery from a more interesting angle. Remember 'Just Can't get Enough?'. That was a fun number...
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