Depeche Mode will tour, release new album: A look at the band's influence
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Molly Driscoll Staff writer
The influential electronic group Depeche Mode will release a new album and tour during 2017.聽
The group鈥檚 new work, which is titled 鈥淪pirit,鈥� will be released this spring and Depeche Mode will then tour in Europe, starting with a performance in Stockholm in May.聽
Other tour stops will include Amsterdam, Athens, Budapest, London, and Berlin.聽
The tour will work toward raising money for charity:water, a nonprofit that attempts to provide as many people as possible all over the world with safe water. , the band鈥檚 previous tour raised over $1 million for charity:water.聽
The group鈥檚 previous album was 鈥淒elta Machine,鈥� which was released in 2013. Other recent albums by the group include 2009鈥檚 鈥淪ounds of the Universe鈥� and 鈥淧laying the Angel,鈥� which was released in 2005.
Depeche Mode was first created in 1980 and the band is often credited as having a big impact on electronic music. called the group 鈥渆lectronica鈥檚 forefathers鈥� when writing in 1998 about a tribute album that included 鈥渙bvious Depeche Mode influencees鈥� such as the Cure, the Smashing Pumpkins, and the Deftones, as well as 鈥渁n appropriate smattering of contemporary electronic performers鈥� such as Rabbit in the Moon and Apollo 440.
In an interview with MTV,聽1500 Records founder Gary Richards said of the tribute album, 鈥淯sually when a tribute album comes out, a record company is just trying to make money off one of its capital artists. For us, granted, it is a business, but we wanted to show how good Martin Gore's songwriting is and how influential Depeche Mode has been.鈥�
惭别补苍飞丑颈濒别,听 wrote in 2013 that the music seems 鈥渢imeless鈥� and that 鈥淒epeche Mode still feel[s] so current compared to their '80s new wave and synthpop brethren.鈥澛�
鈥淲e鈥檙e deemed to be sort of the grandfathers of [electronic dance music],鈥� Depeche Mode member Andy Fletcher told the Huffington Post.
