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Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel (2005) [2014, Japanese Blu-spec CD2]

Posted By: BlondStyle

Date: 11 Feb 2018 00:23:26

"Playing the Angel" is the eleventh studio album by the English electronic music band Depeche Mode, released on 17 October 2005 in the UK by Mute Records and on 18 October in the United States, Mexico and Canada by Sire Records and Reprise Records. It was supported by the Touring the Angel tour. "Playing the Angel" debuted at #6 on the UK Albums Chart, selling 32,505 copies in its first week. In the United States, the album debuted at #7 on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 98,000 copies. Both peak chart positions are improvements on the band's previous album, "Exciter", which charted at #9 and #8, respectively, although "Exciter" attained larger US first-week sales of 115,000 units. "Playing the Angel" had sold 418,000 copies in the US as of November 2007. By January 2007, the album had sold 1.6 million copies worldwide (excluding the US and Canada), according to EMI.

~Wikipedia

When "Ultra" was declared the best Depeche Mode album since Violator, those who said so must have forgotten about Songs of Faith and Devotion. When Exciter was declared the best Depeche Mode album since Violator, those who said so must have also forgotten about Songs of Faith and Devotion, in addition to having found a roundabout way of saying that it was merely better than Ultra. There's no doubt this time: Playing the Angel is both the band's best album since Violator and, more significantly, an album that is near Violator in stature. The biggest clue dropped by the band prior to its release was a quote from Dave Gahan, who said that being in Depeche Mode is better than it has been in 15 years. Some quick math reveals that Gahan was hinting at the Violator era, a time when the band's creativity and popularity peaked synchronously. It also turns out that this is a time as good as any other to be paying attention to the band. Playing the Angel lacks Songs of Faith and Devotion's end-to-end chest-beating, Ultra's grinding murk, and Exciter's desiccated patches. It takes the best qualities from those releases, combines them with a few subtle allusions to Violator -- tiptoeing the border that separates retread from reinvention -- and makes for a highly concentrated set of songs that all but demand to be heard in one uninterrupted shot. Gahan, still riding the confidence he gained as a songwriter from Paper Monsters, his 2003 solo debut, contributes three songs co-written with band associates Christian Eigner and Andrew Phillpott. Though none of them vie to be the album's centerpiece, it's apparent that the move wasn't a concession of desperation on anyone's part. The friendly competition seems to have kicked chief songwriter Martin Gore into high gear; he's in top form. Musically, a lot of analog gear was used, and it's apparent that the arrangements and extra sounds were less fussed over than they have been in the recent past. You get the sense that everything fell into place, as opposed to being forced or aimlessly manipulated. Despite the favoring of older gear, there's no other year in which any of the songs could've been made. Like the best Depeche Mode, almost everything on the album will make an initial wowing impact while remaining layered enough in subtle details to surprise and thrill with repeated listens. It is not the kind of album a 25-year-old band is supposed to make.

~Review by Andy Kellman

Release of the album: 2005, October, 17 [CD Mute, Cat.# cdstumm260 0094634057707, UK]
Release of this CD: 2014, April, 23 [CD Mute Records/Sony Music Labels Inc. (Japan), Cat.# SICP 30545 / EAN: 4547366214550]
℗© 2005 Venusnote Ltd./Mute Records Limited, a BMG company, under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment.
Manufactured by Sony Music Labels Inc.
Made in Japan

Notes: Reissue, Blu-spec CD2, Gatefold Cardboard Sleeve.

Credits:

Art Direction, Photography By, Design [Cover Design] – Anton Corbijn
Design – Four5one.com
Engineer – Ben Hillier, Richard Morris
Engineer [Assistant London] – Devin Workman, Kt Rangnick
Engineer [Assistant New York] – Arjun Argerwala, Rudyard Lee Cullers
Engineer [Assistant Santa Barbara] – Nick Sevilla
Management – Jonathan Kessler
Management [Depeche Mode Office] – JD Fanger
Mastered By – Emily Lazar
Mastered By [Assistant] – Sarah Register
Mixed By – Ben Hillier, Steve Fitzmaurice
Producer – Ben Hillier
Programmed By – Dave McCracken, Richard Morris
Programmed By [Original] – Andrew Phillpott (tracks: 3, 7, 8), Christian Eigner (tracks: 3, 7, 8)
Written-By – Phillpott (tracks: 3, 7, 8), Eigner (tracks: 3, 7, 8), Gahan (tracks: 3, 7, 8), Martin L. Gore (tracks: 1, 2, 4 to 6, 9 to 12)

Tracklist:

01. A Pain That I'm Used To (04:11)
(Martin Gore)
02. John the Revelator (03:43)
(Martin Gore)
03. Suffer Well (03:50)
(Dave Gahan, Christian Eigner, Andrew Phillpott)
04. The Sinner in Me (04:56)
(Martin Gore)
05. Precious (04:10)
(Martin Gore)
06. Macro" (04:03)
(Martin Gore)
07. I Want It All (06:10)
(Dave Gahan, Christian Eigner, Andrew Phillpott)
08. Nothing's Impossible (04:21)
(Dave Gahan, Christian Eigner, Andrew Phillpott)
09. Introspectre (01:42)
(Martin Gore)
10. Damaged People (03:30)
(Martin Gore)
11. Lilian (04:50)
(Martin Gore)
12. The Darkest Star (06:55)
(Martin Gore)

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