Depeche Mode: Songs of Faith and Devotion
Andy Gill, Q, April 1993
THEIR LAST album, Violator, was a quantum leap over Depeche Mode's previous output, as if the live-double compilation, 101, had purged their past. Buoyed by Martin Gore's most mature and melodic batch of songs yet, it was their most successful release.
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