Depeche Mode have always danced with death. Listen to, say, 1990’s “Enjoy the Silence” and you’ll detect a dark, simmering nihilism eager to remind us that we all die eventually. Even their most lustful tracks are accompanied by an urgency that borders on frantic, as though time might run out before the chance for one last bonk.
Memento Mori, the band’s 15th album, is unique because the inevitable has, in fact, happened – only much sooner than anyone could have predicted. The sudden death of keyboardist Andrew Fletcher, aged 60, last year means the band are now a duo. Dave Gahan and Martin Gore have been left to process the stark reality of what has always captivated their music.
The grief on the record is deeply felt, but perhaps more striking is its sense of resolve. “Soul With Me” is a magnificent ode to ageing: “I see the beauty/ As...
Memento Mori, the band’s 15th album, is unique because the inevitable has, in fact, happened – only much sooner than anyone could have predicted. The sudden death of keyboardist Andrew Fletcher, aged 60, last year means the band are now a duo. Dave Gahan and Martin Gore have been left to process the stark reality of what has always captivated their music.
The grief on the record is deeply felt, but perhaps more striking is its sense of resolve. “Soul With Me” is a magnificent ode to ageing: “I see the beauty/ As...
- 3/22/2023
- by Roisin O'Connor
- The Independent - Music
The Pixies soundtrack a psychedelic horror show in the video for their new song “On Graveyard Hill,” set to appear on the band’s upcoming album, Beneath the Eyrie, out September 13th.
Directed by Kii Arens and Bobbi Rich, the clip is centered around a young woman who’s convinced by a radio ad that she needs to visit a fortune teller immediately. After grabbing a cab ride in a hearse, the woman meets with the psychic, who conjures a chaotic montage of scenes that make the most of the video’s late-Sixties aesthetic,...
Directed by Kii Arens and Bobbi Rich, the clip is centered around a young woman who’s convinced by a radio ad that she needs to visit a fortune teller immediately. After grabbing a cab ride in a hearse, the woman meets with the psychic, who conjures a chaotic montage of scenes that make the most of the video’s late-Sixties aesthetic,...
- 7/17/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
When Pixies set out to record their latest album, Beneath the Eyrie, last December, they decided to do something unprecedented: They taped their entire process in the studio, including songwriting, recording and mixing the music for the record, and allowed British music journalist Tony Fletcher to witness the whole thing.
That project got turned into “It’s a Pixies Podcast.” The 12-episode series dives into the making of Beneath the Eyrie and will feature demos, interviews and snippets of downtime in their studio, Dreamland Recordings near Woodstock, NY. Fletcher will narrate the series,...
That project got turned into “It’s a Pixies Podcast.” The 12-episode series dives into the making of Beneath the Eyrie and will feature demos, interviews and snippets of downtime in their studio, Dreamland Recordings near Woodstock, NY. Fletcher will narrate the series,...
- 6/18/2019
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
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