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Depeche Mode on what The Psychedelic Furs’ Richard Butler brought to ‘Memento Mori’

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Depeche Mode have spoken to NME about what The Psychedelic Furs‘ Richard Butler brought to the writing of their upcoming album, ‘Memento Mori’.The synth-pop icons will this week release their long-awaited 15th album ‘Memento Mori’ – marking their first new material since the passing of founding member Andy Fletcher last year.Four of the album’s tracks – with a further two set to be released later this year – feature songwriting credits from Butler.

Speaking to NME as part of a recent interview, the band’s chief songwriter Martin Gore explained the significance of this being a “big first” for him.“I’ve never written with anyone outside of the band in our history,” Gore told NME. “Richard reached out to me around April 2020, just texting to say ‘We should write some songs together’.

I asked for ideas and he sent me a few lines, so I put those to music and we started sending them back and forth.“We ended up writing seven songs.

We didn’t like the first one, but the other six were so great that I thought it would be a bit of a waste to put them out as a side-project.

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