The british group Depeche Mode announced Tuesday in Milan the release in 2017 of a new album called “Spirit”, with a big tour from 5 may to 23 July in Europe, before other dates on the north american continent.
While refusing to reveal details of the album, Martin Gore and Andy Fletcher, return to the AFP on this announcement and the freedom that gives them their long career:
QUESTION: More than 35-year career, a 14th album, that is-what has changed ?
MARTIN GORE: The first 10 years, we were out almost an album per year and we go on tour with. The tours were not so great, it was a little easier. But to release an album per year, it is a lot of pressure. It requires a lot of creativity and it may be that you can do when you are younger. When you’re older, you need more time to maintain the standards of the album. We have always tried to maintain the quality at a high level and to record songs that we liked. And we’re lucky because we continue to appeal to young people, not just people who have grown up with us, the fans of the 1980s.
ANDY FLETCHER: It was 30 years ago, we were in a very different situation: we were trying to do something ever greater… the past 20 years, we’ve done an album and tour every four years, it is more pleasant and relaxing. I think we are more free now. We have a rule: each album must be saved during an american election (laughter), this was the case for the last four albums.
Q: Where and how did the “Spirit”?
AF: It was completed to half in Santa Barbara and the rest in New York. This is where we recorded the last four albums, because this is where Dave and Martin live. We have not yet finished to save. Dave had made three or four songs (…) very good.
MG: We work as a group in the studio on all the songs, those of Dave as my own. We try to follow everything that happens from the point of view of technology, we use all types of instruments, we are aware of what is happening, and we adopt it.
AF: (Now on tour) we missed. It’s nice to play in front of an audience all of the songs on which we worked in the studio. It is very exciting.
Q: What influence have you had, according to you, on the music?
MG: We have helped to make it acceptable to the electronic music. When we started, it was a battle ongoing, the people were not taking seriously the electronic music. This was not considered real music, but as something that would disappear very quickly. Now, it is so, for better or for worse, and we have contributed to this. One of the things I’m rather proud when we speak of our inheritance is that we have always attracted people from different types of music (…), heavy metal, blues, rock….
AF: (great as Johnny Cash resumed their songs) The version of Johnny Cash is very good. Martin was a big fan of Johnny Cash and to have your heroes who did a cover of your song, it is rather special.
Q: You’re British, even if Martin and Dave live in the United States. What was your feeling in front of the Brexit?
AF: I’m very disappointed, it was a vote very close, almost 50-50, this is terrible.
MG: The whole world is in a mess. I think that the Brexit occurred for the same reasons as those for which Donald Trump is successful if, and this is scary: a lot of people are not happy with their life and do not know very well how to express it, then they choose weird options, which are not necessarily good.
interview by Celine CORNU
11/10/2016 23:56:07 – Milan (AFP) – © 2016 AFP
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