Singers Involution

Depeche Mode is a group, the first impression of a meeting with which can be deceiving. As the photographer Anton Corbein recalled, he was reluctant to take his first shooting with Depeche Mode , because he believed that this Basildon Boyzbend, who burst into the hit parades with the I Just Canomet Get En feing, is a one-day darling. It was 1981 in the yard. Depeche Mode only released the debut album “Speak and Spell” , most uncomplicated songs of which were written by Vince Clark. The 19-year-old Dave Gahan, who did not get rid of youthful puffiness, looked like a ruddy schoolboy-in a pink shirt, a blue tie and blue suspenders. Maybe that's why Anton Corbein built the frame so that the Depeche Mode vocalist, which stood in the foreground, was in Rasfokus and his face could not be made out. The first impression is sometimes persistent. The Dutch photographer, who loved other music - postpank and Joy Division , refused to shoot Depeche Mode until 1986, and then he became a permanent author of clips and covers of records - an architect of a strict visual image of the group, which designed both the last album Spirit and a dedicated tour.

In 2017, it never occurred to anyone to count the depeche mode by dummies-one-day or a “group of hairstyles”, as they were once called, but they are not expected from them either. Starting with a variegated wave of new romantics, the group with age left the synthesis bubbled by youth hedonism to high-degree electronic blues, and this timely growing up made depeche mode by one of the few British stars of the new wave, stepping over the 1980s and strengthened their influence in the 1990s. Despite the solid experience and a long track record, Depeche Mode has not yet been included in the mode of the collective, which is running out of the execution of old hits (which they have a considerable amount). Their new Spirit album, charged with disappointment from the results of the latest presidential elections in the United States, is the most acute entry in the history of the group. On it, Depeche Mode sadly state the degradation of mankind armed with new technologies. Dave Gahan, Martin Gore and Andy Fletcher can still be surprised.

The Moscow concert Depeche Mode was not without a few unexpected moments. The group began with the phonogram of the Beatle “Revolution” , which has become an overture for the opening “Spirit” song-manifesto “Going Backwards” , which directly says that everything is changing only for the worse. Having sweetened the pill of the hip-signal ballad with the branded wormhole “So Much Love” , the group gave out a hat-trick from its gloomy songs- “Barrel of a Gun” , “A Pain that I'M Used to” and “Corrupt” . Then she slightly loosened the burst of the lyrics with a block and entered a new circle of noir militants, impregnated with anxiety and melancholy. The cold and dense concert sound Depeche Mode , gravitating to the industrial rock, was emphasized by the minimalist and aphoristic video of Anton Corbein, in which the black color dominated. The general critical attitude set by Depeche Mode in the new album and the concert program gave a different interpretation of songs studied along and across. For example, “Enjoy The Silence” , illustrated by shots with rabbits, sheep and other silent pets, could be interpreted as a poisonous satire to people who keep silence and isolated from external events in their small world. Interestingly, at that moment they thought and felt Vladislav Surkov and Alexei Navalny, who were in the auditorium.

Suddenly, a provocative reading within the Global Spirit Tour was received by another classic Depeche Mode song - “Walking in My Shoes” , performed in the bead of the performance. Having literally visualized the metaphor, Anton Corbein took off her short film about a man-gap, who goes to work in a night club on tall studs. In Russia, where the law on the prohibition of propaganda of non -traditional sexual relations among minors is in force, this elegant video was actually a slap of public taste, which is inclined to cave conservatism. It seemed that it was a little embarrassed by the devoted audience of Depeche Mode , but the following song caused even more perplexity-the respectful cover version of Heroes David Bowie, dedicated to the memory of the personal hero of Dave Gahan and Martin Gora.

In 2017, few of the musicians are able to rise to the stands and heroically lift the flag, making a diagnosis of modernity-all the more mourning black. It is amazing that it was Basildon Boyzbendu that fell out of the rebellious spirit, who lived in rock music since The Beatles and David Bowie.

February 25, 2018 Depeche Mode will perform at the Olympic SK.