Memento Mori

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Studioalbum dar, während Gahan und Gore nach dem tragischen Tod von Bandmitgründer Andrew „Fletch“ Fletcher im Jahr 2022 den ersten Longplayer in zweiköpfiger Besetzung vorlegen. Depeche Mode's new album Memento Mori is a rather bittersweet one for fans - they are of course happy to hear fresh material from their favour electronic doom mongers, but it is also the last time they will hear music from the group featuring corer member Andrew Fletcher, who suddenly passed away at the start of the sessions. This, of course, revisits the earlier question for some of you fellow audiophiles as to whether you need to own a 180g 2LP set that includes 8-bit-flavored drum machine sounds. Remaining members Dave Gahan and Martin Gore wondered if they would carry on, but carry on they did. Meanwhile, Side 3’s “Always You” grabbed me for very personal reasons, as the simple-but-ominous repetitive two-chord changes remind me of a similarly somber-yet-forward-looking song I wrote many years ago as part of a song-cycle tribute to my late partner.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. In the edit page, go to the 'Metadata' tab and add your Juno artist, label or release page for listeners to purchase your release / releases. The first single is ‘Ghosts Again’, which you can preview above and the album itself will be available on CD, deluxe CD and black and coloured vinyl variants.In fact, the best compliment I can wrap this review up with is this thought — how great is it that a band like Depeche Mode can still create compelling new music after all these years that doesn’t feel tired, and in turn rekindles and/or sparks interest in their past works? First we will analyze each edition in detail (technical and qualitative analysis), then we will compare the successive editions with their dynamics and assign a final score, and you will be able to listen some samples. Given that Memento Mori features a great deal of synths and computer programming (as listed in the liner notes/credits), it is a fairly safe bet to assume this album was recorded largely in the digital domain.

Two 180 Gram BLACK vinyl discs in a tri-fold jacket with foil print on cover, printed inner sleeves and 12”x 24” poster. The target is to compare the dynamics of the music and not of the media (CD, digital files or vinyl). Trust me — they’re used to great effect here, and when you turn up the volume on Memento Mori, it definitely rocks the house (and maybe the rafters too, if you have them). The graph below compares the vinyl spectrum (white curve) to the Qobuz Hi-Res spectrum (blue curve).In fact, listening to this album has compelled me to seek out a new LP copy of the aforementioned Violator, for starters. The curves overlap completely between 300 Hz and 10 kHz, below 300Hz, the white curve is very slightly above the blue curve (green area), which will give a little more bass to the vinyl (about 1dB below 150 Hz). Delta Machine | The 12" Singles is the chronological 13th volume in SME's Depeche Mode 12" Singles Series with plans to release a Spirit box set in a similar deluxe audio-grade collector's edition. has seen the release of Sounds Of The Universe | The 12" Singles in August with Delta Machine | The 12" Singles following in September. Since the first partnership in 2010, Hublot and Depeche Mode have collaborated a number of times to support causes that both care deeply about.

This is confirmed by the DR value, which is DR4 for the average value, with songs between DR3 and DR5, which is almost a record in terms of limiting dynamics, but a bad record!The listening of the vinyl is here a little more open and dynamic than the digital version, but without offering a dynamic worthy of a very good vinyl. Si, para los que amamos a esta banda, podemos decir que después de más de 40 años de carrera, y que sigan a este nivel es para estar de enhorabuena, de lo mejor que se puede escuchar de ellos desde Ultra, las melodías se nota que están muy bien trabajadas, un disco como concepto muy completo y repleto de canciones que nos hacen ser optimistas de cara al futuro, cuando parecía más cerca su ruptura total. Below you will find the description of the different editions, as well as the measurements of each edition in the following chapters. Other than that laser-etched nit, Memento Mori is an excellent album, and a fine addition to the Depeche Mode catalog.

Still, the question remains — and it’s probably on the minds of many of you reading this review — as to whether you need a digitally driven record like Memento Mori on vinyl. Memento Mori is Depeche Mode's 15th studio album and it's first as a two-piece lineup of Dave Gahan and Martin Gore, following co-founder Andrew "Fletch" Fletcher's tragic passing in 2022. My only complaint — not unique to Depeche Mode, I must note — is related to using the fourth side for a laser-etched graphic element, which I think is a wasted effort. Many of us vinyl junkies look for special messages from the mastering engineers who leave their mark on certain pressings for historical posterity.We're just getting started, but we're excited to provide further updates on what we're able to achieve together with Hublot and The Conservation Collective on tour and around the world.