Depeche Mode‘s Dave Gahan has spoken to NME about returning from the brink to make new album ‘Memento Mori’, and life after the loss of bandmate Andy Fletcher.
Watch our video interview with the frontman above.Yesterday (October 4) saw the electro icons announce details of their 15th album and an upcoming world stadium tour from a press conference in Berlin.
After the announcement, Gahan sat down with NME to tell us about the making of ‘Memento Mori’. Translating to ‘Remember that you must die’ from Latin, it marks the band’s first record since 2017’s ‘Spirit’ and first since bandmember Andy Fletcher died back in May, aged 60.Despite the dark themes of the record, Gahan spoke of how the music pre-dates Fletcher’s passing.“A lot of the songs for this record were written over the last couple of years Martin [Gore, bandmate] had been demoing for a while and was just waiting for me to come back to the fold,” Gahan told NME. “We talked about doing something together at the end of last year, then talked about it more seriously in January and here we are – we’ve got a finished record.”The James Ford-produced album is currently being mixed by Marta Salogni and is due to drop ahead of the tour kicking off in March 2023.
However, Gahan revealed that he was hesitant about making another record at first.“It wasn’t something I dived into, I have got to say,” he admitted. “At first I put up quite a bit of resistance.
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