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  • Depeche Mode: Musicfolio Album Reviews - Discography and album reviews.
  • IMDb: 101 - Documentary about the preparation of rock group Depeche Mode for their final concert during a tour.
  • Entertainment Ave: Depeche Mode - Review of a concert at The Tweeter Center in Tinley Park, Illinois. (June 22, 2001)
  • AMG All Music Guide: Exciter - Ned Raggett's review: "It's rare to find bands capable of keeping their own best qualities to the fore while trying something new each time out, but Depeche Mode demonstrate that balance in full on the marvelous Exciter." 4 stars.
  • Billboard: Exciter - Billboard review: "Exciter is the best Depeche Mode album in a decade."
  • Canoe: Exciter - Jane Stevenson's review: "Lyrically dark and the perfect blend of warm acoustic sounds and cold electronica..."
  • dotmusic: Exciter - dotmusic review: "this shadowy, stark, gothic blend of synths and guitars, urban blues and eerie soundtracks proving compelling if occasionally unsettling listening."
  • NME: Exciter - Stephen Dalton's review: "Not many long-running groups could make an album this fresh and confident in their 20th year, never mind one which bridges timeless soulman crooning and underground techno." Rating: 8/10.
  • Nude As the News: Exciter - Piero Scaruffi's review: "for the first time in a long time, one can actually listen to David Gahan's lyrics. Indeed, on Exciter, he has rarely sounded less moronic." Rating: 5/10.
  • Playlouder: Exciter - Iain Moffat's review: "Exciter stakes a hell of a claim on bringing Depeche Mode into the 21st century. And how many of the old New Romantic crowd have actually managed that?"
  • PopMatters: Exciter - Tony Peregrin's review: "There are precious few bands that can still record relevant and vital albums in their 20th year."
  • Rolling Stone: Exciter - Barry Walters' review: "Exciter maintains an otherworldly mood and purity of purpose that today's angst-ridden rockers would trade their Jeff Buckley CDs to attain." 3.5 stars.
  • CMJ: Exciter - Tom Mallon's review: "they've somehow evolved into elder statesmen of sorts, maturing with each new release and always moving towards a more polished, adult sound. Exciter, the band's tenth studio album, seems almost like an amalgamation of all of its '90s incarnations." (May 28, 2001)
  • AMG All Music Guide: Songs of Faith and Devotion - Ned Raggett's review: "Songs of Faith & Devotion continues the Depeche Mode winning streak." 4 stars.
  • CMJ: Songs of Faith and Devotion - CMJ review: "on this, its tenth album, one wouldn't think Depeche Mode would have much left to prove, yet on Songs Of Faith And Devotion the quartet has re-examined its music and approach to come up with a challenging overhaul..."
  • AMG All Music Guide: Speak and Spell - Ned Raggett's review: "Depeche Mode's debut is at once both a conservative, functional pop record and a groundbreaking release." 4 stars.
  • Rolling Stone: Speak and Spell - David Fricke's review: "Depeche Mode's Speak and Spell is strictly PG-rated fluff. A group of fresh-faced, suburban lads from Britain, they have neither the ambition of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark nor the overt commercial allure of the Human League." 2 stars.
  • AMG All Music Guide: Ultra - Ned Raggett's review: "The most immediate change was Gahan's singing; for the first time ever, he took singing lessons beforehand, and his new control and projection simply shines..." 3 stars.
  • Canoe: Ultra - Richard John's review: "an exceptionally well crafted dark and moody piece of pop."
  • NME: Ultra - James Oldham's review: "Issues are skirted, poetry is attempted and we're left clutching another instalment of stadium-orientated angst, at a time when we were expecting reflective intimacy." Rating: 6/10.
  • Rolling Stone: Ultra - Elysa Gardner's review: "moody, pulsating ballads such as "The Bottom Line" and "The Love Thieves" are ideal vehicles for Gahan's brooding baritone and for the band's ever-increasing sense of tender intuition." 3 stars.
  • CMJ: Ultra - CMJ review: " this is the most depressing fare we've heard from the band since the days of Black Celebration. And coincidentally, it's one of the best." (May 5, 1997)
  • AMG All Music Guide: Violator - Ned Raggett's review: "Goth without ever being stupidly hammy, synth without sounding like the clinical stereotype of synth music, rock without ever sounding like a "rock" band, Depeche here reached astounding heights indeed." 4.5 stars.
  • Rolling Stone: Violator - Chuck Eddy's review: "Depeche Mode has got a way with cute little mechanized blips, and the train whistles and raga rhythms and air-traffic-control signals put monotony on hold." 2 stars.
  • CMJ: Violator - CMJ review: "Violator is a disturbing album of uncertain happiness and certain gloom." (April 13, 1990)

Tribute Bands

  • Behind the Wheel - Quebec-based tribute band. Includes song list, audio files, and photos.
  • Sweetest Perfection - California-based tribute band. Includes show dates and song list.

 

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