The group Depeche Mode releases a new album in 2023 and will go on tour, orphan of Andy Fletcher

Orphan of their founding member Andy Fletcher, who died aged 60 last May, Depeche Mode will be released next March Memento Mori their 15th studio album, singer Dave Gahan announced on October 4 in Berlin.

Inspired by both the pandemic and the loss of Fletcher, the album will precede a tour, the band’s 19th, which kicks off in March in California, Sacramento. “We have the opportunity to make music and play it for you, hoping to bring you a sense of joy and solidarity, on our small scale, in a world that seems to be constantly in the throes of some form of turmoil.“, explained Gahan during a press conference.

Depeche Mode has sold over one hundred million records worldwide. Among his greatest hits, Just can’t get enough, Everything Counts, Never Let Me Down AgainWhere walking in my shoes. Pioneers of synthetic pop in the early 1980s, they developed this genre to free themselves from it by opening up to guitars in the early 1990s.

The group enjoyed immense success with the album Violator (1990), which notably includes the tubes Personal Jesus and Enjoy the Silence. Originally, the band consisted of Vince Clarke (keyboardist and songwriter), Martin Gore (guitarist, keyboardist and songwriter, sometimes also vocalist), Andy Fletcher (keyboardist) and Dave Gahan (vocalist and composer). Vince Clarke left the band at the end of 1981 and was replaced two years later by Alan Wilder.

Depeche mode’s latest studio album, Spiritwas released in 2017, and was also followed by a tour of Europe and the Americas.