But an abundance of alternate versions and remixes has produced a messy canon. Depeche Mode played 64 shows in 18 countries for over one million fans. The first studio release in 4 years Depeche Modes 11th album Playing The Angel proved that once again they were unlikely to stay in one creative spot. It's easy to chart the overall arc of the band's career, from its minimalist, electro-pop beginnings to the swelling pop yearning of Music for the Masses and on to the dark extravagance of albums like Violator and Exciter. After a four-year layoff, Depeche Mode continued onward as a trio and released 1997s Ultra, which featured the hits 'Barrel of a Gun' and 'Its No Good.' A year later, the band embarked on a tour in support of its newly released hits album, The Singles 86>98. Principal songwriter Martin Gore and his bandmates fuse classic pop songcraft with productions that keep pace with advances in music technology lead singer Dave Gahan's dramatic delivery, meanwhile, has helped their songs of loss and redemption become pop-culture touchstones, covered by everyone from Tori Amos to Marilyn Manson.
The result was a 1 alternative radio hit in the US and another top 10 pop hit in the UK. It brought out an intense rock side of the band with Alan Wilder playing drums and Martin Gore playing guitar. From their earliest days with Vince Clarke (before he left for Yaz, then Erasure), Depeche Mode took a spindly, synth-pop sound and filled it out with touches of techno, industrial, Americana and modern rock. Courtesy Mute 'I Feel You' is the first single from Depeche Mode's eighth studio album Songs of Faith and Devotion. But unlike so many of their peers, they've remained both active and relevant. Depeche Mode will forever be '80s icons thanks to their role in helping invent synth-pop as we know it.
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