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8.4

Universal acclaim- based on 8 Ratings

  • Summary: This is the second collaboration between the Depeche Mode frontman and the British electronica duo Soulsavers.
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  • Record Label: Columbia
  • Genre(s): Electronic, Blues, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Downbeat, Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Country Blues
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Staring in a drifferent views on the window ledge Coffee is gone cold i´ts like time froze There you go whishing floating down our wishing... See the rest of the song lyrics
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 12
  2. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. Q Magazine
    Oct 27, 2015
    80
    This second effort even has the edge on 2012's The Light The Dead See, with an extra-dazzling cinematic sweep to its orchestration, a poleaxing depth to its existential sorrows and a fabulously redemptive uplift in the climatic My Sun. [Dec 2015, p.107]
  2. Oct 26, 2015
    80
    Powerful and affecting, this is as good as anything Gahan has done in the last 25 years.
  3. Oct 23, 2015
    70
    The two entities continue their tear-jerking relationship on this year's Angels and Ghosts. Once again, Gahan has turned himself inside out on these songs.
  4. Mojo
    Oct 27, 2015
    60
    For Gahan, Angels & Ghosts is another opportunity to repeat his therapeutic cycle of guilt-shedding and redemption. [Dec 2015, p.88]
  5. Oct 30, 2015
    60
    Angels & Ghosts is in many ways accomplished and often very pretty. But it’s pretty in the way of a postcard, and Gahan’s been around long enough and been through enough to warrant something deeper.
  6. Uncut
    Oct 27, 2015
    60
    It's a muscular and alluringly saturnine record with a vintage sheen, which occasionally tilts at the Bad Seeds but sounds more like a wracked Richard Hawley. [Dec 2015, p.71]
  7. 50
    Plodding, overwrought gospel epics like Shine and Tempted are the order of the day, pale passionless shadows of the Mode’s mighty, desperate Condemnation.... Things improve on the starker latter half.

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  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. Oct 27, 2015
    10
    A fantastic and solid record. Gahan sounds powerful and his voice stripped down from all Depeche Mode effects stands out as one of theA fantastic and solid record. Gahan sounds powerful and his voice stripped down from all Depeche Mode effects stands out as one of the instruments. Emotional record.. Expand