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| Oh, yes, friends: there is new Depeche Mode video. When you hear the new Depeche Mode song, you have to be a pretty hard-boiled athiest to refrain from thanking God you’re alive. Pretty much everybody in Depeche Mode spent some or all of the nineties in rehab, and I think there were even suicide attempts or something at one point. They are the classic high-tech tragic figures: in southern California, they were as close to royalty as you can get without owning a movie studio, and every single they ever released went directly into KROQ’s rotation and stayed there until every citizen of the realm had learned it by heart -- and yet by the end of the nineties they were a disaster area, only visible when it suited tabloid news shows to remind us that into every life a brutal amount of rain must occasionally fall, and that it’s morbidly entertaining to see the rain come down when it starts to do so in buckets. |
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