Sounds Of The Universe
by Depeche Mode
  • Record Label: EMI
  • Release Date: Apr 21, 2009
User Score
7.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 119 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 86 out of 119
  2. Mixed: 23 out of 119
  3. Negative: 10 out of 119

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Awards & Rankings

37
#37 Most Discussed Album of 2009
100
#100 Most Shared Album of 2009

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Metascore
70

Generally favorable reviews - based on 28 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 28
  3. Negative: 0 out of 28
  1. Rolling Stone
    50
    The result sounds like a time machine back to the Eighties.
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  2. Spin
    60
    Sounds of the Universe comes on a bit softer, with less industrial guitar clang and more of chief songwriter Martin Gore's dreamy atmospherics.
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  3. The Guardian
    60
    A less then stellar return, then, but a welcome one nevertheless.
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