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Mar 25, 2013Delta Machine, the band's 13th album, feeds off this negative energy and winds like a snake the whole time, slithering through a well-written (ten songs from Martin Gore with three coming from Gahan) and lusciously recorded set of serpentine siren songs.
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Mar 26, 2013Delta Machine is best taken as that 13-song slab, one that is a near-perfect summation of the band those skinny teenagers who regularly showed up on children’s mornings programs have grown up into.
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Q MagazineApr 9, 2013They're still here and they're still very good. [May 2013, p.93]
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Mar 26, 2013Delta celebrates brooding faith and slippery solace without scrimping on Depeche's trademark blackstrobe punishment.
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Mar 22, 2013New album Delta Machine is about more than simple fulfillment--going one further to actively excite, as it lays the template for some of the band’s most vigorous, energetic material in 15 years.
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Mar 26, 2013Despite Gore’s lovely choirboy harmonies, ["Heaven"] feels like electro-soul dragged through quicksand. Thankfully, the rest of the album staves off such dullness with a potent combination of moody programming, focused songwriting, and subtle velocity.
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Mar 21, 2013Ultimately, Delta Machine is a record full of terrific moments, reminding you of why you fell in love with Depeche Mode in the first place.
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Mar 27, 2013While at the end of the day the formula still works, it just isn’t as fresh as it once was to demand immediate repeat listens. But Delta Machine does deserve repeat listens.
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Mar 25, 2013The freshness comes through in the delivery, which is as loose as electronic music permits, delivered with the bluesy rawness that frontman Dave Gahan wanted from the album.
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Mar 21, 2013Delta Machine is the strongest album the group has put out this century, brushing up against the locked-in grooves of the group’s late-‘80s crest that began with 1984’s Some Great Reward and ran through the revolutionary classic Violator in 1990.
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Mar 25, 2013Another reasonably strong effort for a band that's managed to get wise without growing too old.
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Mar 25, 2013This isn’t a band going through the motions, it’s a band going through a violent and explosive rebirth, a return to form that’s almost unparalleled.
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Mar 21, 2013Depeche Mode have dropped the best album of their career.
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Mar 22, 2013In 2013, if rock is going to survive, it surely has to encompass the bleeps and beats of electro veterans who sound like the future is still catching up with them.
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Mar 27, 2013The new album finds vocalist Dave Gahan and songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Martin Gore refining some familiar sounds and trying out some new wrinkles.
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Mar 28, 2013While it could have been clipped of a couple of tracks, overall the devil is in the glitchy, Fever-ish new details--and Dave has rarely sounded better.
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Mar 25, 2013It’s not a huge stride in a new direction, but its incorporation of new sounds into the established blueprint sounds like a band both mature and renewed.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 101 out of 125
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Mixed: 18 out of 125
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Negative: 6 out of 125
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Mar 30, 2013
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