This week Depeche Mode announced a world tour and a forthcoming album, Memento Mori.
It’s the first new album by the British electro legends since 2017’s Spirit, and the 15th in their hugely successful career. The title seems to be in tribute of and inspired by founding member Andy Fletcher’s death in May, but DM’s lead songsmith, Martin Gore, says the phrase was always in the works.
“It sounds very morbid, but I think you can look at it very positively as well,” Gore explained in a German press conference this week regarding the title which means an object that’s kept as a reminder of the inevitability of death.
Gore said the momento, like a skull, could remind you that you should “live each day to the max.”
The band will be hitting the road for the first time since 2018 (see their last setlist here), starting in Northern California in Spring of 2023 and hitting just 5 big US cities and 3 in Canada before jetting off to Europe for the bulk of their tour.
Depeche Mode 2023 Tour Dates:
read more at: Setlist.fm
