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...Depeche Mode, whether they realize it or not, are astride the twilight zone of sentiment, sentimentality, and naked-nipple camp. With a synthesizer beat that commands the dance floor, tender melodies that call for industrial-sized Dramamine, and pretty-boy vocals that would do credit to the Krokodiloes. Depeche Mode somehow manages to subvert the teen-age romantic schlock slot they ought to fit so well...
...Depeche Mode rips the guts out of Modern Love, and the Modern Love Ballad, by distilling it into its purest form. With a voice oozing tenderness, Alan Wilder sings...
...band with such a cynical outlook would attract little attention outside of the self-conscious New Wave demimonde; but for less sophisticated ears. Depeche Mode embodies the cool kinetic madness of the best beat-box music, only with the less aggression...
...Mode's monolithic melodies, abetted by clever consumer-culture sound effects (dropping ping-pong balls, snipping scissors) and super-resonant production, captures the finely-ground precision of the motionmusik, and added to the heartbreak of frustated adolescent romance, how could it miss...
...Depeche Mode's rare appearance at the Orpheum a few months back was a pretty depressing affair if you weren't looking for a high school pick-up. With most of the musical action programmed into the array of synthesizers and organs, vocalist Gore was left prancing about like a second-string Rod Stewart, with material that could never approach the Rod's exquisitely terrible haunchraunch. The rest of the band was strapped to their machinery, tapping out melodies with one, two, and sometimes even three fingers. Depeche Mode gave good beat, but in a frenetic concert atmosphere pumped...