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Memento Mori

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This, of course, revisits the earlier question for some of you fellow audiophiles as to whether you need to own a 180g 2LP set that includes 8-bit-flavored drum machine sounds. Along the way on the 22-city tour the band will also play multiple nights at Berlin’s Mercedes-Benz Arena, Paris’ Accor Arena, Madrid’s Wizink Center, Milan’s Mediolanum Forum, and more. However, given the quite high-fidelity nature of the album, I think it’s also fair to say it was probably made in hi-res — especially as you can find it on high-end streaming services like Qobuz and Tidal at 24-bit/96kHz. The film restoration underwent a rigorous process over the course of several years with the participation of personnel involved in making the original films including Anton Corbijn. We're just getting started, but we're excited to provide further updates on what we're able to achieve together with Hublot and The Conservation Collective on tour and around the world.

Trust me — they’re used to great effect here, and when you turn up the volume on Memento Mori, it definitely rocks the house (and maybe the rafters too, if you have them). Time will tell if these new Mori tunes become as classic for fans as “Personal Jesus” and “Enjoy The Silence” are. Memento Mori' is Depeche Mode's 15th studio album and its first as a two-piece lineup of Dave Gahan and Martin Gore, following co-founder Andrew 'Fletch' Fletcher's tragic passing in 2022. Above 15 kHz the white curve is below the blue curve, with the difference increasing up to 20 kHz to 5 dB (yellow zone). As a reminder, the scale goes from 0 to more 20, but the dynamics are considered good from 12, quite good between 10 and 11, and deteriorate below 10.While those streams do sound pretty good, they also have a bit of that harder, crunchy digital edge going on that I tend to not love, if I have the opportunity to pick and choose how I want to listen.

Like the band’s last album that I seriously got into, March 2013’s Delta Machine, Memento Mori is actually a very good record. I’ll put it this way — I can turn up my amplifier’s volume when playing my vinyl copy of Memento Mori and it doesn’t make my ears hurt, whereas the streams sounded quite harsh as soon as I started pumping them up a bit (even through my Mytek Brooklyn DAC).But as soon as you turn up the volume, the music doesn’t breathe anymore, everything is at the same level, everything seems packed, lacking dynamics. Delta Machine | The 12" Singles is the chronological 13th volume in SME's Depeche Mode 12" Singles Series with plans to release a Spirit box set in a similar deluxe audio-grade collector's edition. Preceded by the single “Ghosts Again” on 9 February and the track “My Cosmos Is Mine” on 9 March (on streaming platforms) as well as the single “Wagging Tongue” released on 7 July, it is the first Depeche Mode studio album to be recorded and released as a duo, after the death of co-founder and keyboardist Andy Fletcher on 26 May 2022. Roughly, and perhaps arguably, Depeche Mode is the modern-day electro-pop/techno/dance music equivalent to The Rolling Stones. SME released Depeche Mode's Black Celebration | The 12" Singles and Music For The Masses | The 12" Singles on 31 May 2019.

First and foremost, the 180g 2LP pressings are very nice, thick, black, dead-quiet, and well-centered. The graph below represents the comparison of the waveforms of the Qobuz digital version, the vinyl and the tape for the first 4 tracks. With over two million tickets already sold, the 110-date Memento Mori Tour is on track to be one of Depeche Mode’s largest to date, as well as one of the largest worldwide tours of 2023.Truth be told, I can’t say if Memento Mori is better or worse, as of yet — but I can say it easily stands proudly alongside those two albums. The album's 12 tracks chart a vast expanse of moods and textures, from its ominous opening to its closing resolve-running the gamut from paranoia and obsession to catharsis and joy, and hitting myriad points between. Following stadium and arena shows across Europe, Mexico, Canada, and the US this summer and fall, Depeche Mode today announced 29 new European dates which will extend the tour into 2024.

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