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| 4.0 excellent | Alabaster Jones | May 5th 17 |
A lot of people are pinning this down as Depeche Mode's political album and though a decent chunk of the album does deal with the state of world politics, a greater chunk is spent on interpersonal relationships whether they are platonic or romantic in nature. Spirit is a pretty minimal album by Depeche Mode's standards, with most of the bombast coming from the vocal performances. The production, while minimal, makes excellent use of this minimalism by making sure that which is there to be heard is beautiful or empowering or dark in tone, and more often than not it works to perfection. The lyrics, while painfully obvious on the more political songs, are quite good on songs like "Cover Me", where far more subtle references towards the sociopolitical landscape are made using metaphors and allegories. If you can withstand some obnoxiously obvious political commentary for about five minutes of the total runtime, by all means check this thing out. A bit strange to be listening to new Depeche Mode and finding it great.
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| 0.0 | Pekke | February 6th 17 |
already feeling the 3.1 from the cover. the single seems just repetitive, maybe even 2.9
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| 2.5 average | Gene Gol-Jonsson CONTRIBUTOR | July 8th 23 |
Before finally accepting their age and working on something more introspective, Depeche Mode made one final last-ditch effort to appeal to their younger, more proactive days, but lacking all energy and freshness of said younger days.
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| 2.5 average | Coldplaz | March 24th 17 |
Like all post-Wilder albums, there is just something missing about the production. The album
barely contains any memorable hooks or melodies apart from the first track and the attempted
political lyrics are pretty embarrassing. Especially on the lead single and "scum". It seems DM
are just releasing new albums every 4 years so they have some new songs to play while touring. And
most people just want to hear the classics.
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| 2.0 poor | Snuron | February 20th 24 |
| 2.5 average | doofy | January 7th 24 |
| 3.0 good | fifek | May 6th 23 |
| 2.5 average | Cam | April 23rd 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Srglvrz | March 24th 23 |
| 3.5 great | Timmy | March 24th 23 |
| 3.0 good | MvdW | November 25th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | biggzhc | September 17th 21 |
| 2.5 average | quetzal | August 25th 21 |
| 3.0 good | Jerrad | August 10th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | pabcel | May 29th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Juuso | February 7th 21 |
| 1.5 very poor | gschwen | December 29th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Jrzg85 | December 18th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | CalinD | November 30th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Sowing STAFF | October 14th 20 |
| 3.0 good | degina | February 29th 20 |
| 2.5 average | Prole | February 27th 20 |
| 2.5 average | virpi | February 26th 20 |
| 2.5 average | David83 | November 14th 19 |
| 3.0 good | Bossie | October 26th 19 |
| 3.0 good | Jimmer2 | September 14th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | teahead | November 21st 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | bobby72 | October 13th 18 |
| 2.5 average | bbgames | September 15th 18 |
| 3.5 great | Host78 | August 23rd 18 |
| 3.0 good | FelkFg | August 8th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Majkl | July 23rd 18 |
| 3.0 good | Nero | May 25th 18 |
| 3.0 good | ArvidL | January 26th 18 |
| 3.5 great | progsun | December 28th 17 |
| 3.0 good | t67 | December 23rd 17 |
| 2.5 average | gilly | December 18th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | bSmith | December 11th 17 |
| 2.5 average | Rdv | December 5th 17 |
| 3.0 good | KOZAKY | October 17th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Gueero | September 27th 17 |
| 2.5 average | igi78 | September 20th 17 |
| 3.5 great | abysmo | September 18th 17 |
| 3.5 great | YayoG1 | September 3rd 17 |
| 3.5 great | Arkadin | September 2nd 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | jnedi | August 6th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Alexxx | June 21st 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Log S. | June 12th 17 |
| 3.0 good | wg98 | May 12th 17 |
| 3.0 good | alsid | May 6th 17 |
| 2.0 poor | Lalka | March 27th 17 |
| 3.0 good | Irving EMERITUS | March 26th 17 |
| 3.5 great | heck | March 25th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | BHAR | March 24th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | hsb | March 24th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Ebola | March 23rd 17 |
| 4.5 superb | OdyM | March 22nd 17 |
| 3.0 good | MO | March 21st 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Handers | March 21st 17 |
| 3.5 great | Trez | March 20th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | mrkolas | March 19th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Steev | March 19th 17 |
| 3.0 good | Trey STAFF | March 19th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Yusuf | March 18th 17 |
| 3.5 great | helti | March 18th 17 |
| 3.5 great | JWT155 | March 17th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Kaleid | March 17th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Simon K. STAFF | March 17th 17 |
| 4.5 superb | PaabL | March 17th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Luisito | March 14th 17 |
| 5.0 classic | ranur | March 13th 17 |
| 4.5 superb | Cayit | March 13th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Eames | March 11th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | edirp | March 11th 17 |
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