Depeche Mode
Construction Time Again LP vinyl

Having proven his abilities as a pop craftsman on the previous year's a broken frame, DM main songwriter Martin Gore gets down to the business of developing a new sonic language for himself and his bandmates on construction time. Earlier in its career, Depeche Mode tried to make its synthesizer-only arrangements seem warm and fuzzy, but here the band embraces the Kraftwerk-pioneered tradition of exploiting the synthesizer's inherent inorganic qualities for their intrinsic beauty. In addition to straying further from the poppy approach of previous albums, the group incorporates industrial-oriented sounds as an important part of the arrangements, lending an ominous, machine-like tone to many of the songs. The once-chipper group's growing disenchantment with the outside world begins to flower here as well, most notably on the anti-music biz observations of "everything counts".

NEW / Released in 1983 / Reissue 2016

Tracklist:

A1 Love, In Itself

A2 More Than A Party

A3 Pipeline

A4 Everything Counts

B1 Two Minute Warning

B2 Shame

B3 The Landscape Is Changing

B4 Told You So

B5 And Then...